I AM as equally excited as councillor Peter Malpas that he, highway chiefs and the council STUMBLED across a way to improve traffic flow by removing the traffic lights at the junctions of St Thomas's Road, Market Street and Park Road, as traffic flowed more freely when the lights were not working due to some malfunction.

In the interest of good housekeeping might I respectfully offer an alternative use for them in the form of a junction on Chapel Lane/Lancaster Street/Goose Green Avenue.

While this may not be an ideal solution to a potentially dangerous problem (which has been continually ignored/shelved by both parish/county councils alike) it would go some way to solving it.

The problem involved an extremely dangerous blind bend -- a mere 126 feet (which defies even the safety recommendations as contained in the British Highway Code) from a junction where the residents have to tentatively emerge to face traffic often approaching at terrifying speeds!Only the acute awareness of local residents has prevented a potentially fatal collision which might indeed have answered the totally unacceptable question. "Well, has anyone been killed yet?"

Michael R Beazer, Goose Green Avenue, Coppull.