DRIVERS in Worcester are urging council chiefs to rip out traffic lights or consider removing some pedestrian crossings in the fight against jams.

We revealed on Monday how Worcestershire County Council is exploring a wacky idea of using satellites in the sky to monitor drivers - and since then reaction has poured in.

Many motorists have criticised the sci-fi like mission and are urging council bosses to look at more simple solutions - but others insist anything has to be worth a go.

The council is talking with a specialist US manufacturer about the possibility of using space research to track tailbacks.

Driver Peter Morgan, 57, of St Peter's, Worcester, said: "If they did some tinkering around the edges, like taking out traffic lights or pedestrian crossings, I'm sure it'd be simpler.

"That crossing in Croft Road (opposite The Hive) is a complete nightmare, you get a stream of students constantly wandering across and nothing can get moving.

"If that had lights instead, there's one problem gone. If you look at the city centre in general nobody can tell me we need that many lights."

Fellow motorist Sandra Peters, 40, who travels from Claines to Birmingham every day as a teacher, said: "If they are talking with a company maybe they could get them to pay for this.

"If we paid for it I'd be annoyed but if they could do it cheaply I wouldn't mind.

"Worcester is a lot worse for congestion than it was a few years ago, not enough has been done to improve the roads."

The project has also led to renewed calls to bid for Government money for an extra Worcester bridge, and the completion of the northern link relief road.

One email, from reader Colin Griffith, of Pershore, said: "If the link road was complete there'd be no worry about satellites, or surveys, or anything else.

"It's been obvious to me for some time that the only answer is that."

Other readers writing on our website worcesternews.co.uk asked for more to be done with lights.

A poster called Larry King wrote: "Resequence traffic lights to avoid causing hold ups in the first place.

"It's odd that when some sets of lights aren't working traffic seems to flow much easier."

Another poster called Lovely Jubbly said: "I got into a taxi on The Cross one evening and the clock was at £6.20 by the time we got past the lights by McDonald's - that was down to timing of traffic lights."

The county council revealed last week it could look at the lights sequencing in the city again - and a review is currently ongoing over letting taxis use bus lanes.