Crews have now repaired the traffic lights at the busy George Street/Roger Neilson Way and Lansdowne Street West intersection in Peterborough.

The traffic lights had not been functioning since Tuesday afternoon, causing lineups at the intersection at peak times.

Crews worked to repair the lights on Wednesday and by 3 p.m. Wednesday the lights were operating again.

City police had an officer on point duty during the outage and had advised motorists to avoid the area.

The intersection is near the Memorial Centre.

There was no immediate word from the city on what caused the outage.

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