Not making sensor (From York Press)

While they are at it.....have a look at the ones on James St junction with Morrisons, bizzare sequence!

I get so fed up with the lights on the A19 turning red when there's no-one waiting on Wheldrake Lane, wasting time and fuel for everyone on the main road.

The other junctions that really need to be looked at are Hull Road outside B&Q and the point where the A64 sliproads meet near Askham Bar – there's so much dead time on both of those with cars being held at red for no reason at all.

Grimston Bar's A64 roundabout traffic lights are annoying, with traffic coming out of york heading west onto the A64 often getting three sequential reds; Hull Road B&Q lights could be simplified by getting rid of the right turn/u-turn phase for traffic on the york-bound side going in to the link road - traffic instead going around the roundabout; any additional traffic on that side would be offset by the extended green time that would result from getting rid of the aforementioned phase on the lights; the A19 Crockey Hill junction was done on the cheap, using the same equipment as the junction of Huntington Road and Hayleys Terrace (whereby for some reason, despite Huntington Road having more traffic, the lights stay on green for longer for Hayleys terrace, and give priority to one waiting car on Hayleys terrace over three or four cars just 4 meters from the lights and approaching at about 30mph, which then get forced to brake sharply as the lights go red despite the cars riding over the sensor strips... and then there's the phantom car effect that occurs for the five houses beside the river foss bridge everytime it rains), and the same equipment as the junctions along Malton Road (including that with New Lane, whereby when there's lots of traffic on New Lane waiting to head towards the city, such as at 8am, it lets three cars through before going red, whilst at 6pm when there's more cars on Malton Road, New Lane has suddenly become the 'default green')

Essentially, most of York's traffic junctions are set up on the cheap... and it shows.

I don't really know this side of town or the sequencing of these lights but I suspect that there will be detector loops in the road. With detectors though you can only use these to vary the lengths of green time given. You cannot hold one road (in this case Wheldrake Lane) on permanent red until a vehicle shows up as there is always a risk that the detector fails to 'see' a vehicle and so you could be stuck forever!