I NOTE there is a scheme to relieve the frequent traffic jams in Okehampton (Times, May 31) with the pedestrian crossing in Market Street. Unofrtunately, this will do nothing with the queues I joined on Friday and Saturday the full length of Fore Street, East Street and partly along Exeter Road. The only cure is re-timing the inefficient traffic lights that presently only let one direction, of four, move at any one time. This means that on average in any one hour each direction only has 15 minutes to move. But in fact it is even less than this due to the time taken for sequencing the lights. The other problem is planners, if that?s the correct description, building all the houses at one end of town and the supermarkets at the other end and the other side of these restrictive traffic lights. The proposed measure will have negligible affect. David Bagshall Grindhill Okehampton
