Not being sarcastic to you but the local council did it so it could be anything at a guess:Ah... do you know why they did that?
. They had money left over in their budget so instead of repairing the roads did this.
. The barrier they built created a bottleneck at the bottom by the main roundabout recreating a scene from the Monaco grand prix when the lights turn green.
. The original version was far to sensible and they thought drivers couldn't indicate and turn right.
. When taking the tractor and fusion through there they wanted to create a challenge so put the pedestrian crossing lights as close as possible to the road so you have to crawl through there.
. They created a solution to a problem that didn't exist.