tags in @Bruce WayneNo, near Swindon, for which I coined the phrase Grimdon. Traffic lights here spend 10 minutes on red and 30 seconds on green. I'm convinced it's deliberate so that motorists waste fuel, then hand the government a fuel duty bonus when they fill up again.
Worse, there are a billion lycra clad cyclists who use traffic lights to get in front of a queue of cars that's just painstakingly overtaken them, just so they can hold them up again.