New stoplights at Olsen and Highway 23 making Simi drivers red

I was happy to hear the Simi Valley City Council discussing the new lights at Olsen Road and the 23 Freeway.

These stoplights have succeeded in making an already bad commute worse.

In the mornings they have backed up Olsen Road all the way into Wood Ranch and now they are backing up the 23 Freeway in the evening and creating a hazardous condition.

Whoever made this mistake should admit it and immediately remove these lights and return the intersection to how it was before, when it worked.

Hopefully, state Sen. Tom McClintock and Assemblywoman Audra Strickland will take a break from fundraising and join the Simi Valley City Council in working to remove these stoplights.

This is a local issue, and the politicians who are supposed to be representing us should be working on this situation. Arleigh Kidd