When all 42 sets of traffic lights went out at a notoriously chaotic road junction, there were fears that it could lead to a real-life version of dodgems.
However, motorists using the Grovehill junction in Beverley, near Hull, reported that the flow of traffic was better than usual — and they want the lights to be switched off permanently.
The junction had been nicknamed “the red-light district” by Bild, the German daily newspaper, and a crew from a Munich television station, Pro-Sieben, came to film it last month. One resident wrote to the local paper this week saying: “This international laughing stock is a disgrace.”
Peter Robinson, 78, said it had been a nightmare since the traffic lights were installed in February.
Another resident,