I AGREE with your correspondent (Lights madness, March 13) that the Bewdley Road/Minster Road lights in Stourport need some adjustment to the timing.

But as the writer says, the main problem here is the traffic blocking the junction. A strictly enforced yellow hatched box should be painted on the road to deter these stupid or selfish drivers.

However, I can't agree with Geoff Francis in the same issue (Don't stop the flow on our one-way system). As a "long-standing" local driver he should know that the traffic in the left lane of Gilgal crawls nose-to-tail at busy periods, so he can "mirror and signal" all he wants but drivers will not let him cut in if he's thought to be queue-jumping.

When my daughter was a new driver she idealistically used to do as Mr Francis suggests, but was beeped at for blocking the right-hand lane and often had to go all round the one-way loop again.

There shouldn't be any such problem from Mitton Street to Vale Road, as the latter has three lanes.

I've noticed that roughly one in four drivers entering Gilgal from Minster Road will give way to those in Vale Road, yet presumably the other three out of four would hypocritically expect to receive the same courtesy from others.

There is yet more selfishness on display when entering Stourport on Worcester Road in late afternoons, where smart-Alecs' effectively queue-jump by using the right-turn lane, then circuit the Hartlebury Road roundabout to gain right-of-way.

What we do need (apart from a by-pass, obvously) is more courtesy and tolerance, and the implementation of merge in turn' which is official policy in the Channel Islands.

BRIAN RUSHTON Stourport