Traffic lights (7)

Had to stop off for a coffee where I used to live this morning, they are doing some more roadworks (same scenario as last time), for which they open up a side road or two (circumventing the traffic lights).

As a result of which, the traffic was purring along smoothly, cars were stopping immediately for people at the Zebra crossing by the Tube station, there were no more than one or two cars waiting to turn back onto the High Road (as opposed to ten or fifteen that are normally stuck at the traffic lights by the library during rush-hour), and all was well with the world.