Anyone who reads this newspaper on a regular basis can't help but realise that the traffic lights are for no other reason than to facilitate the Park and Ride buses making their journey to and from the two sites at Osgodby and Seamer Rd within a given time.

All the information to arrive at this has been published in this newspaper over the last nine months including detailed maps of the intended routes the buses will use. Given the number of letters complaining about the number of traffic lights published in the press it's a little surprising that someone from the council, councillor or officer, has not deemed it beneath them to explain to the public, many of whom obviously do not understand the reason for all the
lights.

The council will no doubt claim they have responded to public concern but they have not done so in any convincing manner or you would not be receiving the number of letters on the subject.

I have serious reservations about how the extra traffic lights will facilitate bus movement through the various junctions and queuing traffic, even with some dedicated bus lanes and the devices fitted to these buses to afford them priority. I have even more concern as to how ordinary traffic will be affected and am not expecting any improvement, on the contrary I can see traffic tailing back to Morrison's and Cayton Bay respectively at busy times. As many correspondents have pointed out traffic lights stop traffic, roundabouts in the main keep traffic moving.

But let's not forget all of this, the hated Parking Regime, the Park and Ride and all the Traffic Lights that go with it was forced upon us by Central Government as a condition of granting the funding for the Osgodby by-pass or the Scarborough-Lebberston diversion to give it it's correct name, under the heading of the Integrated Transport Scheme.

When traffic snarls up and people are forced onto public transport the scheme will have succeeded in its basic aim.

P Brown
Rimington Way
Osgodby