I FEEL that I must respond to the reply by county councillor Jeremy Webb to my letter of April 6. Yes, you can sometimes win and no, I don't know better, I just consider everything and listen to what a lot of other people have to say.

Regarding the Link Top traffic lights, I still stand by what I said, all you will achieve is increasing the 'rat run' around the back streets to avoid the delays at the lights, but on that you are probably one step ahead. By allowing the already deplorable state of our streets to deteriorate even further you may just be able to stop the extra flow.

Already there is talk of yet another set to be installed, this time at the junction of Lower Howsell Road and Worcester Road.

I agree with your correspondent last week when he said that he thinks we are trying to get into the Guinness Book of Records for the most lights in the shortest section. There are still another three or four junctions in this section as yet untouched that could at some stage in the future be 'lit up', so I think there is every chance that we are in line to claim that record.

Mr Webb, these days I am more a pedestrian than a motorist. If human lives are your top priority as you claim, how come you are putting so many at risk every day at the traffic lights in Great Malvern? Those lights are lethal and a serious threat to your health, how someone has not been seriously injured or worse is pure luck.

As a member of the Malvern Hills Highways Partnership, your failure to 'stagger' the lights sufficiently means that traffic coming up Church Street wanting to turn right into Graham Road have to wait their turn, during busy periods there are at least two or three vehicles 'stuck' in the middle when the lights change. The pedestrian lights immediately change to green so you have people crossing the road at the same time as the 'stranded' vehicles then cross the pedestrian crossing. It is a disaster waiting to happen but I suppose, as usual, we will have to wait for a number of serious injuries or fatalities before anything is done about it, but again this is all about common sense.

RICHARD PHILLPOTTS, Nursery Road, Malvern.