ALL the recent traffic lights installed in Poole seem to have a few design faults.

The first one being if you are the first car it is hard, if not impossible, to see the lights.

There used to be an additional set of lights ahead on the other side of the junctions so you knew what was going on.

Plus, they had a green traffic filter lights to let waiting traffic move off the junction.

I find the worst example is at the Shah of Persia when turning right at a busy period.

Once you have passed the lights when coming down the Ringwood Road and are waiting with a couple of other cars to turn right into Fernside Road, you have no idea of the state of the lights, and all of a sudden you are suddenly confronted on both sides by cars coming in both directions coming up from the park and going down to the park.

The lights have changed and everyone wonders what you are doing parked in the middle of the junction blocking the flow of traffic.

Also, the Oakdale lights are now down to two lanes coming into Poole from Fleetsbridge, and if the first three cars in the right hand lane want to turn right and it is a peak period the right hand lane comes to a complete standstill, whereas when the original lights were there with three lanes it was not a problem.

Plus being a road to a school it is always busy at peak morning periods.

And my last concern are the lights at Sterte where, if you are coming out of Sterte road and are the first car at the junction at a red light, there is now no green filter arrow on the lights opposite, to tell you to turn left towards the station, it is hard to see the green filter left arrow above your head when you are the first car on the stop line, and most people seem to move after a toot from the car behind.

PAUL EELES, Poole