Whoever hatched the plan to introduce the new set of traffic lights at the junction of Woodcote Road and Beddington Gardens over a year ago, had chaos in mind and they have achieved it.

The traffic lights are set in such a way that vehicles going down Woodcote Road overflow and block the junction of Stafford Road and Stanley Park Road - not just only at peak times.

On September 18, the queue of vehicles on the other side of Woodcote Road, about 4.30pm, stretched as far back as Wallington Girls' Schools from the junction near Sainsbury's.

The number of vehicles entering and exiting Beddington Gardens from Woodcote Road is much less than the volume moving along Woodcote Road itself. The green lights here, however, seem partial to the Beddington traffic which is the reason for the present mess.

I have lived long enough in Wallington to know that we did not have these conditions before the lights were installed. Could those responsible kindly take action to alter the traffic light setting please?

It is also time that Woodcote Road, Stanley Park Road and Stafford Road junction is made into a box junction. It will certainly keep tempers under control. I have also noticed that the traffic lights were adjusted back to their original setting at the Ruskin Road and Park Lane junction after the one way system was scrapped. Traffic coming up from Carshalton in Park Lane has to wait for some time for no apparent reason when the down traffic seems to be moving nicely.

NICK NALLADORAI Alington Grove Wallington