A plan for traffic signals on Abingdon Bridge should be given the red light, say town councillors.

They have criticised proposals to install lights near the Nag's Head pub and on the pedestrian crossing outside the Broad Face pub as part of the Abingdon Integrated Transport Strategy.

Peter Fulk said it would be a "recipe for disaster" and added: "Although lights might hold up traffic coming into the town from the Culham direction they would also hold up traffic trying to get out of the town. We would have traffic blocked up along Stert Street and into the Vineyard. That happens already at some peak times so lights on the bridge would only add to the problem."

Councillors agreed that a reshaped Lodge Hill interchange to the A34 was necessary to ease traffic flows through the town.

At the moment there is only northbound access and a southbound exit.

Mike Badcock backed the idea of a new river crossing in the town - a long-term aim of the strategy.

He said: "A new river crossing would cost a lot of money but it is about time someone buckled down to the task of trying to find the money from somewhere."

Mr Badcock also called for a new bus interchange in Queen Street or on the site of the multi-storey car park.

But Julie Mayhew-Archer, a member of the transport strategy steering group, said there was not enough room on the Queen Street site for a bus interchange and demolition of the car park was not feasible.

New bus stop-over bays are planned along Stratton Way when it becomes two way, to take waiting buses out of the High Street.

The views of the town councillors will be passed on to the county council's team and consultants who are planning the future of Abingdon's highways network.