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Chiara Pollock

Glasgow traffic lights out across city as engineers scramble to fix fault

Traffic lights across Glasgow city are out this morning as engineers scramble to various locations.

Drivers have been warned to "use caution" during their journey this morning as traffic lights across the city and wider Glasgow remain broken.

This morning (June 12), the council were alerted to “numerous traffic signal failures” caused by mains electricity spikes and outages overnight.

A spokesperson for the council said: “Due to mains electricity spikes/outages overnight, there are numerous traffic signal failures across the city.

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“Please exercise caution during your journey. We are in the process of attending those sites affected and restoring them to operational condition.”

The faults are spread across the city with busy junctions affected including: St George's Cross, J2A of the M74 at Cambuslang, Paisley Road West / Crookston Road and Dumbarton Road.

It appears the problem has reached wider areas including Cumbernauld, with one concerned motorist tweeting: "Multiple traffic light failures in Cumbernauld Road/Stepps Road. Also Stepps Road at Rychazie and Bellroxk Street. Free for all."

Another commuter tweeted Glasgow City Council, saying: "Why is there not a single traffic light working in the charing cross/ Finneston area. I've almost crashed a good 3 times on the way to work."

The faults are in the process of being fixed, however, Glasgow City Council were not able to confirm a rough estimate of when the lights will be back up and running.

For updates visit here.

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