Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Roadworks cause chaos in Cardiff city centre.
A SINGLE set of roadworks looks set to slow Cardiff’s rush-hour traffic to a crawl for the next nine weeks. Roads into Cardiff city centre were reduced to chaos yesterday – giving motorists their first taste of the problems in store from a 24-hour-a-day programme to change the layout of a crossing outside Cardiff Castle.
Vehicles were bumper to bumper and backed up on major roads across the city as a result of the three-lane route passing the castle being reduced to one lane in either direction, creating a bottleneck for rush-hour traffic. Critics last night branded the work, which will create a 10m-wide crossing area made of granite, as a shambles. Scores of motorists trying to get into the city through Canton, North Road, Llandaff, Riverside and Grangetown found their vehicles reduced to a near standstill as the partial road closures had a knock-on effect. Tailbacks developed along Cowbridge Road East in Canton, Cathedral Road in Pontcanna and North Road in Gabalfa, with similar mayhem as commuters returned home.
Click here to read the rest of this news story and click here to read the webpage of Cardiff County Council about these alleged road improvements that include the laying of Chinese granite paving slabs.
Well I witnessed the chaos and gridlock yesterday morning and it was indeed staggering. No matter which way you tried to get into or out of our city centre you faced severe delays and gridlock. The traffic simply backed up in all directions. There is no way around it because of the demographics of our city centre, through routes and the River Taff and it's bridges. The council say to use alternative routes but this is not possible because of the layout of our city centre. Any alternative route you use to skirt around the city centre is of little use because of the gridlock that these roadworks have caused.
Any project you do will have a cost-benefit analysis. What were our council thinking when they considered the implications of these roadworks? Nine weeks of chaos and gridlock for playing about with a pavement and a pedestrian crossing. This can never be worth the severe disruption that these roadworks entail. Thank you for nothing Cardiff Council, never mind your big idea for the use of Chinese granite paving slabs, how about we give the councillors Chinese burns for the discomfort they have imposed on everybody living or working in Cardiff. There is nothing wrong with the existing pavement and pedestrian crossing. The money could have been better spent elsewhere in our city and we could have saved ourselves nine weeks of chaos and gridlock.
A SINGLE set of roadworks looks set to slow Cardiff’s rush-hour traffic to a crawl for the next nine weeks. Roads into Cardiff city centre were reduced to chaos yesterday – giving motorists their first taste of the problems in store from a 24-hour-a-day programme to change the layout of a crossing outside Cardiff Castle.
Vehicles were bumper to bumper and backed up on major roads across the city as a result of the three-lane route passing the castle being reduced to one lane in either direction, creating a bottleneck for rush-hour traffic. Critics last night branded the work, which will create a 10m-wide crossing area made of granite, as a shambles. Scores of motorists trying to get into the city through Canton, North Road, Llandaff, Riverside and Grangetown found their vehicles reduced to a near standstill as the partial road closures had a knock-on effect. Tailbacks developed along Cowbridge Road East in Canton, Cathedral Road in Pontcanna and North Road in Gabalfa, with similar mayhem as commuters returned home.
Click here to read the rest of this news story and click here to read the webpage of Cardiff County Council about these alleged road improvements that include the laying of Chinese granite paving slabs.
Well I witnessed the chaos and gridlock yesterday morning and it was indeed staggering. No matter which way you tried to get into or out of our city centre you faced severe delays and gridlock. The traffic simply backed up in all directions. There is no way around it because of the demographics of our city centre, through routes and the River Taff and it's bridges. The council say to use alternative routes but this is not possible because of the layout of our city centre. Any alternative route you use to skirt around the city centre is of little use because of the gridlock that these roadworks have caused.
Any project you do will have a cost-benefit analysis. What were our council thinking when they considered the implications of these roadworks? Nine weeks of chaos and gridlock for playing about with a pavement and a pedestrian crossing. This can never be worth the severe disruption that these roadworks entail. Thank you for nothing Cardiff Council, never mind your big idea for the use of Chinese granite paving slabs, how about we give the councillors Chinese burns for the discomfort they have imposed on everybody living or working in Cardiff. There is nothing wrong with the existing pavement and pedestrian crossing. The money could have been better spent elsewhere in our city and we could have saved ourselves nine weeks of chaos and gridlock.
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