STEPHEN Higgins suggests that we have been dragging our feet over repairs to the traffic lights at Clifton Green (January 14) but nothing could be further from the truth.

This was a complicated fault which failed to respond to emergency repairs and which, in the end, needed some in-depth diagnostic analysis before we could even begin lasting repairs.

I am pleased to report that the lights are now up and running again - but not without some major repair work.

Peter Evely,

Head of highway regulation,

City of York Council,

St Leonard's Place,

York.

Updated: 12:31 Saturday, January 18, 2003