Traffic lights issue

[Sherpa Kev]

The pedestrian lights (Circled red) on the exit of this roundabout at Scotch Corner are faulty, and changing to red on a regular basis for no apparent reason. They then hang on red for an extended length of time.
As you can imagine, this is a busy roundabout with northbound traffic on the A1M wishing to come off at this junction and head west over the A66 TransPennine route, as well as heading to Richmond on the first exit and also a service area to the right of the junction. The pedestrian lights then cause massive problems on the exit slip as traffic wanting to go down the A6108 to Richmond is blocking traffic from exiting the slip road.
National Highways know of this issue and confirm that there is a problem and they are waiting for a part which could take up to three months to arrive.
My view is that they should just turn the lights off until they can be repaired.
On the other hand, and to keep the traffic moving, would it be acceptable to jump the red light if you are 100% sure that there are no pedestrians approaching? And the crossing is very rarely used by pedestrians.

(And yes, I do know that stopping at a red light is a legal requirement, but under the circumstances why not try and keep the traffic flowing?)

[Sherpa Kev]

As an afterthought to my original post, there is a bus stop just after the road has straightened up. Surely, placing the lights by the bus stop, rather than that close to the roundabout exit would have been a much wiser option when the road layout was designed.

[Sherpa Kev]

Red Devil said:

Sherpa Kev said:

The pedestrian lights (Circled red) on the exit of this roundabout at Scotch Corner are faulty, and changing to red on a regular basis for no apparent reason. They then hang on red for an extended length of time.
As you can imagine, this is a busy roundabout with northbound traffic on the A1M wishing to come off at this junction and head west over the A66 TransPennine route, as well as heading to Richmond on the first exit and also a service area to the right of the junction. The pedestrian lights then cause massive problems on the exit slip as traffic wanting to go down the A6108 to Richmond is blocking traffic from exiting the slip road.
National Highways know of this issue and confirm that there is a problem and they are waiting for a part which could take up to three months to arrive.
My view is that they should just turn the lights off until they can be repaired.
On the other hand, and to keep the traffic moving, would it be acceptable to jump the red light if you are 100% sure that there are no pedestrians approaching? And the crossing is very rarely used by pedestrians.

(And yes, I do know that stopping at a red light is a legal requirement, but under the circumstances why not try and keep the traffic flowing?)

If it's really as bad as you say, would this work for you? - https://goo.gl/maps/PyhT4BQwf3nm5xjK6

Probably not when I'm coming out of Middlton Tyas

[Sherpa Kev]

We now have a temporary fix