I would like to know who is in charge of the traffic lights on the junction of Holgate Road and the Mount, as quite honestly they are a joke.

Why does anyone set up a traffic system so lights turn green for five seconds then go red. What on Earth do they hope to achieve? The traffic backs up from the Tadcaster Road between three sets of lights from Albermarle Road past Scarcroft Road on to the Holgate Road junction. Nothing moves and the amount of carbon dioxide that is pumped into the air around this area must be massive.

Have the traffic control people considered using plain common sense or is that asking too much.?

John Norman,

Teachers Close, York