Scenes of havoc have been captured in Newport today (Sunday) as motorists begin adapting to a return to the norm as the St George’s Way improvement works have come to an end.
Island Echo has been sent several photos of motorists still driving on the wrong side of the road despite the fact that the diversion – which has been in place for several months – has now been lifted.
In one photo, a delivery rider on a moped can be seen handlebar to bonnet with an oncoming car that has driven up the wrong side of the carriageway.
In other scenes, a bus has been seen stopped in the middle of the Church Litten junction as motorists continue to wrongly drive on the right at the approach of the junction when heading towards Newport Town Centre.
The council scheme, the latest phase of ongoing investment to ease congestion in and around the county town, is designed to help resolve bottlenecks at St George’s Way caused by traffic queuing on the approaches to Coppin’s Bridge and the Matalan roundabout.
While St George’s Way has now re-opened in both directions, there will only be a single lane of traffic in either direction until the carriageway has been resurfaced and lined. This work will take place overnight between Wednesday 18th August and Friday 27th August after which it will be fully opened.
The only remaining work will be the laying of high friction safety surfacing. This treatment requires the road to be worn before it can be applied so this will be undertaken towards the end of the year.
St. George’s way been closed for so long why not get the resurfacing completed then open fully why mess about delaying it
That’s what I thought when I read the previous report that they were opening the road and then closing it again for resurfacing. It’s been closed for something like 5 months, surely an extra day or two to finish it could have been managed? Or, heaven forbid, they just sped the whole thing up a bit – 5 months to widen a road? Where else in the UK would that happen for such a short stretch of road?
“This treatment requires the road to be worn before it can be applied so this will be undertaken towards the end of the year.”
If you had read the report properly, Mojo, you would note that:
“The only remaining work will be the laying of high friction safety surfacing. This treatment requires the road to be worn before it can be applied so this will be undertaken towards the end of the year.”
Why haven’t they finished the job before removing the diversion ? And surly there should have been some way of preventing today’s cock ups
That would take planning and effort !!!!!
Alas this does not come easy ….
Apparently!!!!
Do people not read road signs anymore??
Or have island roads left the division routs in place and hoped for the best?
What a bunch of clowns from both sides…
Typical isle of wight, poorly planned and half baked
Elsewhere on the island I expect the traffic wardens were slapping parking tickets on cars! I’m sure they could have been on hand to oversea and do a bit of directing of trafic until people had got used to it again!
Now the old system is back in place…… its gone wrong. Traffic everywhere. The temporary system worked better
Give the pictures to police so these drivers get done with fines and points
High friction safety surface may arse this section of road is no more than 1500 yards long is almost straight and is covered by a 30 mph speed limit.It’s in the middle of town not on a 60mph road with double bends.Just another excuse for island roads to charge the public extortionate amounts of money for something that is not needed.For gods sake if it’s tarmac and black why on earth would we need anything more exotic in the middle of town ?.