Stewponey roadworks causes long traffic jams

As residents and regular visitors will know, the roadworks in the village are due to last a very long time and they're causing enough confusion as it is, but today the problems were piled on when road repairs at the Stewponey junction cause chaos on surrounding roads and frustration to drivers trying to get through the village.

The junction was blocked stopping traffic joining the A458 Bridgnorth road and yet despite the High Street being closed, cars were being sent through the centre of the village. Normally this would have provided a route through to Enville Road but today it caught drivers out who were essentially trapped.

One bemused driver said "I've been trying to get to Six Ashes and have been diverted through here - it's crazy!"

As the queue stacked up in the High Street, tempers frayed as one driver tried to speed past workers taking down the Christmas tree in Vicarage drive, narrowly missing a pedestrian and a dog. When he discovered that the road leads nowhere, he meekly returned and left.

Others queued up to enter the Berkeley car park and were then seen to be leaving soon after when they realised it didn't offer them any escape from the High Street.

An onlooker was heard to quip "It's quite funny".

The roadworks were finished by Sunday afternoon and the jams soon cleared up. So it's all OK now, nothing to see.

Move along.

UPDATE

A roving reporter explains that there are no signs at the Mill Lane end of the High Street explaining that the road is closed and that there is a diversion. What's more, traffic came to a halt on Church Hill when an ambulance was attending to a call out in the Church itself.

This caused tailbacks and yet more problems for travellers.