Countless roadworks are driving me mad

As you are aware, there are only a small number of trunk roads into Leamington. These feed into even less roads into town.

Arriving from the south I am faced with a road closure (again) on Tachbrook Road where drivers are fed onto Kingsway or Clemens Street. As a consequence the Clemens Street traffic (which is usually no more than a five minutes wait at rush hour) is so ridiculous that I can get into town quicker by driving back and out of town towards and past Asda to get into town quicker by using Willes Road (which has itself only recently been re-opened after weeks and weeks of full closure). That then meets a closed Warwick Street in both directions as it meets Clarendon Street which has also been closed for an age.

This morning, driving out of town and along Harbury Lane, drivers are faced with road works by the Mallory Court Hotel. Although there have been signs of workers’ presence in the past couple of days (they were packing up for the day!) that has had traffic lights on an accident black spot 24 hours per day, I drove past today at 8am with nobody there and no signs of any disturbance to the road surface to require traffic lights either.

Does the county council not consider the consequence of having lights in place for a moment longer than they are needed. The frustration, inconvenience and confusion it causes us all is tremendous. If it were for a day of work then fine. But to have lights in place with no sign of any work being done for the best parts of 14 hours per day or allow work to take out not just one road but a handful of roads for weeks if not months is a reflection of the council’s apparent ignorance, of which we have to bear the brunt as a consequence.

I invite a traffic officer to drive around Leamington this working week and see how long they can go without getting heated. I suggest he should start his journey on Bath Street from behind the Iceland truck that, instead of using the delivery entrance, remarkably opts to pull over on a busy one way street to unload fish fingers every morning at 7.45am, causing a mammoth tailback as drivers have to negotiate pulling into another lane and find, when turning right under the bridge, that Tachbrook Road Southbound is closed. I’d be interested just how he/she re-negotiates his/her journey. All this must have a tremendous impact on public transport. - Name and address supplied.