Don't know if anyone here has had problems, but getting into the inner city has been a nightmare for over a week now. Some bright spark has thought it was necessary to dig up the road surface, yes just the road surface, at the junction on Manchester Road with Stephen Hill/Benty Lane in Crosspool. The problem is the temporary lights. If your travelling along Manchester Road and you don't make it past the lights before they change to red, you may as well turn your engine off - you'll be sat there for nearly 5 minutes before they change again - what a joke. Not only are there 2 lights either side of the obstruction, but there are lights at the junction of the 2 side roads as well, and they haven't bothered to adjust the timing accordingly.

So anyway, this started well over a week ago now and has caused carnage at quiet times, never mind rush hour. I drove past on Wednesday at around 11am, the weather was fine, and were there any workmen there getting on with the job so thinks could get back to normal as soon as possible? Were there heck! It was still a large section of missing tarmac. If they are digging down, goodness know how long they'll take.

If you haven't done so already, avoid them. I took a mcuh longer route today and got to where I was going quicker than the other day.