The Bath Chronicle has stepped up its campaign to get traffic lights removed from a vital link road roundabout.
The paper is claiming they slow traffic and cause delays and fail to help the flow of either vehicles or pedestrians.
Readers are being asked to take part in a phone poll on whether the plug should be pulled permanently on the “small army” of traffic lights at the A46 Swainswick/ Batheaston bypass junction with the A4.
At the moment the traffic lights are temporarily out of action.
The paper said: “The result has been that the roundabout junction has been able to operate properly – as a roundabout.
“Vehicles have been moving freely, giving way to traffic from the right and not forming huge queues while waiting for the obviously unnecessary traffic lights to change.
“The bad news is that sometime in the coming week the lights are scheduled to be switched back on.”
Motorists do not want them back on, the paper claims, and neither does the local chamber of commerce. And only 24 pedestrians in two days have used the crossings.
Options for change include:
The Chronicle is expecting the poll will show significant support for getting rid of the lights.
But it added: “Whether this will make any difference to highways chiefs at Bath and North East Somerset is another matter.
“Perhaps we should find out where the lights’ secret socket is and pull out the plug. Better still, we could run off with the fuse.”
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