YORK transport bosses have listed 15 sets of traffic lights and pedestrian crossings they want to replace in the next two years.

City of York Council maintains around 120 sets of traffic lights which cost around £66,000 a year to run. They inspected each set over the course of three weeks last summer, and has now named the sets in line for works.

The sites include a cycle crossing near the Askham Bar Tesco and another in Thanet Road, near Foxwood Lane, and also sets of lights at:

  • Nunnery Lane near Victoria Bar
  • The junction of Walmgate Bar and Foss Islands Road
  • The Station Road and Lendal Arch Gyratory
  • Nessgate corner
  • Monkgate near Monkgate Cloisters
  • Rougier Street near Tanner Row
  • The Heworth Road and Melrosegate junction
  • The Bishopthorpe Road and Scarcroft Road junction
  • Hull Road near Pinelands Lane
  • Micklegate at its junctions with both North Street and George Hudson Street
  • Wigginton Road at its junctions with both Clifton Moorgate and Haxby Road

After the 15 sets of lights are replaced, the programme will carry on for another three years but the locations to see improvements during that period have not yet been decided.

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The list was included on a document released by the council under the Freedom of Information Act, in response to a request from a member of the public.

The document says no brand new traffic lights were installed in York in 2015/16 but ones near Bishopthorpe Road shops and Poppleton Road School were replaced, costing £22,500 in total.

A new set of lights will be installed in place of a mini roundabout at the junction of Water Lane and Green Lane near new development sites, and a new puffin crossing has been installed on New Lane near Hambleton Way in Huntington.

This month, The Press reported that the council had a waiting list of 64 sites where locals wanted new pedestrian crossings, but could only pay for two or three.

People across the city have little hope of getting the safer road crossings they asked for, because for years the council had no money set aside for new crossings, and although a budget of £50,000 has been set aside this year it will cover only a fraction of the pent up demand.