TAMPA — Rush hour delays frustrate many drivers on Dale Mabry Highway, and a Spectrum Bay News 9 viewer thinks his idea will help.

Dale Mabry and Lambright Street, just north of Hillsborough Avenue in Tampa, is regularly busy during the afternoon.

"You can see almost back to the hump of Hillsborough. It’s backed up all the way," said Brad Krantz, who said he deals with it every day while commuting home to Tampa.

"It takes like three or four traffic lights to get through. So I get on at Hillsborough and I’m already getting into backed up traffic," he said.

Krantz believes the traffic in the area has gotten worse in recent years because of population growth.

"This is nothing new and it’s only getting worse," he said. "The traffic backup is getting further. It starts sometimes even before 4 in the afternoon. And goes through 6."

He feels a traffic light adjustment may be the answer.

"If they can lengthen the green light for northbound traffic, maybe even 10 seconds per cycle, that would get another eight or 10 cars through," he said. "If you did that through the course of the afternoon, you’d relieve this backup quite a bit."

Florida Department of Transportation officials say the lights at that intersection are timed with other signals on Dale Mabry but found that traffic begins backing up earlier on Dale Mabry compared to Lambright.

They said they will review the lights to see if the timing can be improved, particularly from 4 to 4:30 each afternoon.