Knock-on effect

The kids are still on holiday so traffic has been much quieter in a morning an evening for the last month or so; except this week when I find myself trailing a queue in Worcester Road (Stourport). I finally twigged on Tuesday evening - they've essentially shut down Worcester Road (Kidderminster) to repair the bridge. Now one might expect that traffic that normally uses this route would simply turn right to the next island then left up into the parallel road that is Chester Road turn left at the signals, left at the island before reaching where they would normally have got to; a tiny diversion.

Except, of course, they're doing roadworks up on Chester Road too. So everyone is either getting off early, or heading down Wilden Lane, and joining up with Hartlebury Road to get into Kidderminster from that direction. This would be the same road that has right-of-way over Worcester Road at the OGL island which in turn feeds into the bottleneck that is Mitton Street.

It's just like normal, so I hate to think what it will be like if this is still going on when the holidays are over.