Calls to override traffic lights as delays hit major route near city

Drivers face long waits at busy junction amid long roadworks

- by Paul Faulkner

Temporary traffic lights that have been causing lengthy delays on one of the main routes towards and away from Preston should be overridden in order to ease queues, the Lancashire Post understands.

The permit for the works being carried out by Electricity North West at the junction of the A59 and A565, near Tarleton in West Lancashire, requires manual operation of the signals between 7am and 7pm every day.

The firm says it has staff who can “intervene” in how the four-way lights function during those hours.