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Lights software bug slows traffic ; NEWS [Edition 3] [Gloucestershire Echo (England)]
[December 20, 2013]

Lights software bug slows traffic ; NEWS [Edition 3] [Gloucestershire Echo (England)]


(Gloucestershire Echo (England) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) IT is one of the county's busiest junctions and now it has become a "nightmare" after computer software which controls the traffic lights crashed.

The Cole Avenue traffic lights in Quedgeley have a smart computer system designed to ensure the flow of vehicles. Its complex system broke down earlier this year. But now the hardware has been repaired, it has emerged the computer software which controls the lights has crashed.



Councillors have vowed to ensure the problem is fixed as soon as possible.

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