We are all b*ggered - in a roundabout way!!

Having spent a nice long Bank Holiday weekend last week and another pleasant weekend celebrating son No.2’s 30th birthday, where delicious food was plentiful, the Aylesbury Vale District Council has managed to spoil it all by creating utter chaos on all Aylesbury roads with their obsession for cones, temporary traffic lights and diversions.
A journey normally taking 5 minutes has this morning taken a whole 40 minutes.
Tempers are flaring up and near accidents are everywhere.

You would forgive all of this if at the end of it some progress and improvement could be shown but in everything Aylesbury Traffic Division undertakes, there is no rhyme and even less reason. It is as if they are trying their best (and succeeding) to piss every last motorist off.
By the time you get to work you are stressed beyond belief. I have told my boss that as far as I am concerned as long as this is going on I consider myself on Flexi-Time!
Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong, but the Oxford Road/Fowler Road traffic light disaster used to be a roundabout!
When it was a roundabout, we NEVER saw traffic backed up to "Big Hand Mo's", or out to the Buglehorn pub coming in from Stone.Then the clever Council converted it to traffic lights (presumably at our expense?) to control traffic when the Oxford Road Bridge underwent extensive reconstruction.
Ever since then the queues are unbelievable!!So, let me get this straight.
One side of the bridge, you have traffic lights to control traffic over the bridge, but the other end you put a roundabout. Why this disparity? Either way, let me explain my arguments for why the ONLY WORK NEEDED AT THE FOWLER ROAD JUNCTION IS TO REVERT BACK TO A ROUNDABOUT:

Argument 1:
Traffic lights were installed to control traffic. By control, what is ACTUALLY meant is RESTRICT traffic, because only 1 side of the bridge was open at any one time. At the same time, as much traffic as possible was diverted to other routes, especially HGVs. So other schemes were put in along with the traffic lights to control a much restricted flow of traffic over the bridge. However, the bridge is now rebuilt, and all the original traffic, including HGVs, are now using it.

SO NOW THE TRAFFIC LIGHTS ARE A HINDERANCE AT BEST!

Argument 2:
The convoluted roundabout system at Big Hand Mos (or should I call it the Hen and Chickens Roundabout for our older readers?) was converted to a single roundabout. No traffic lights? Why would that be, then?
BECAUSE TRAFFIC LIGHTS WOULD HAVE JAMMED UP THE RING ROAD FROM THE BICESTER ROAD TO EXCHANGE STREET
So if this theory is correct, then the volume of traffic round the ring road would have been too great for a set of traffic lights. Instead, a single roundabout was installed at Big Hand Mo's to remove the filter lane to go down the oxford road, another method of reducing the traffic going down the oxford road, along with diversion signs etc.Now, when the re-building of the bridge was complete, the single roundabout at Big Hand Mo's was reverted back to the convoluted car-bashing double roundabout we all know and love. However, the traffic lights were left installed on the Fowler Road junction, and they fiddled about with the timings of the lights etc.
Presumably this was to do with cost. The Big Hand Mo's roundabout had been constructed with temporary concrete blocks, whereas the roundabout at the fowler road junction was ripped up and paved over with traffic lights.
BUT FAR BE IT FOR THEM TO ADMIT THEIR MISTAKE, STOP FAFFING ABOUT WITH FILTER LANES AND LIGHTS TIMINGS, RIP THE WHOLE LOT UP AND PUT THE ROUNDABOUT BACK!