COULD anyone in the traffic-planning department at City of York Council explain the idea of having traffic lights on green for eight seconds?

I drove into York via Tadcaster Road on Thursday morning to take three ladies to York Station and the traffic lights at the junction of Holgate Road and Tadcaster Road kept changing from red to green for eight seconds and then back to red again, staying on red for a further minute or so.

This resulted in one maybe two vehicles going through the lights, causing a long build up of cars and vans. Once through these lights, which took 15 minutes, the road to the station was reasonably clear.

Many cars avoided some of the queue by taking the left-hand turning next to the Elm Bank Hotel then right into Dalton Terrace and back on to Tadcaster Road.

All one can assume is that this council has a long-term plan to cheese people off to the extent they give up going into York. The affect this will have on work and trade does not bear thinking about.

John Norman, Main Street, Wheldrake.