Is Woking joking?

I’ve spent the last few days in Woking, where I used to go to school. 24-hour traffic lights produce congestion at every turn, even on one-way systems where there is no conflict. Are traffic managers, whose armoury of railings and signals blight streetscapes, in league with planning heads who allow malformed plastic windows to blight our historic housing stock? To their shame, politicians have stood by and let unelected officials destroy quality of life and space in the public realm.