Letter: Seeing red over lack of traffic lights monitoring

SIR – I have been wondering if I am the only local resident concerned about the quality of the monitoring and management of temporary traffic light systems carried out by the highways department on our local roads.

For at least three days over last weekend there has been a set of two-way lights disrupting traffic on the A337 about a mile south of Brockenhurst.

No one is presently working at the site and the only reason the lights appear to be there is the absence of a small, square manhole cover in the adjacent verge area.

The cost to us of the contractor being allowed to leave the site without employing a simple temporary repair is days of needless disruption and inconvenience on the the busiest road in our area of the New Forest.

Rather ominously, there is now a sign on the same road, midway between Lyndhurst and Brockenhurst, informing us that we are soon to experience the joy of a temporary three-way system for nearly two weeks at this location as well.

Perhaps the highways department can reassure road users that they will improve their service to us by ensuring that at this site we do not experience the neglect they have demonstrated at the earlier location referred to.

Peter Williams,

Lymington