NEW crash barriers are currently being fitted to the roundabout near Sainsbury's at Lordshill. Similar work took place along Lordshill Way. However, there the road was restricted to one lane controlled by 24-hour traffic lights.

I don't doubt that the work was essential but why could not more operatives have been employed in Lordshill Way to minimise the disruption to traffic?

Perhaps some could have been switched from the work near Sainsbury's. I waited more than five minutes to get through there recently. Multiply my time by the thousands of others motorists who were delayed and that was a lot of wasted fuel and man hours.

We are all concerned about global warming and the effect that CO2 emissions from vehicles have on the planet. Surely the city council should be doing its bit, however small it may be.

PETER SMITH, Lordswood, Southampton.

A council spokesman said: "The temporary traffic lights have been necessary to protect the workforce while these essential repair works have been carried out.

"The lights have now been removed although we may have to use them again over a much shorter length, when the last parts of the improvements are completed in a few weeks."