Minster Road lights

As Don has pointed out in comments there's been work going on at the traffic lights at Minster Road. For the most part this hasn't had a great affect on me, or for that matter the system as a whole as they've been carried out this work one lane at a time and always started and finished between the peak morning and evening traffic.

Well they're still only working between the peaks, but they now appear to have blocked off two lanes. The up lane from Vale Road has the right hand/straight blocked off and it appears that the cross point for the downstream traffic from Minster Road has been blocked. Presumably this means that the upstream traffic is reduced to one lane while the downstream traffic is shunted to one side to flow around the obstruction and use the blocked upstream lane. If this is the case then I'm unsure as to the problem. Nevertheless again it appears that their own traffic lights have been set-up acting in a simple cyclic pattern and the result is a queue backing down Vale Road (and no doubt Minster Road too) and into High Street, York Street, and Bridge Street. Factor in that we're still being used as a 'shortcut' by traffic coming from Hartlebury to avoid the Worcester Road bridge works and fun ensues.

For a future note I was stuck in the left hand lane of Mitton Street because of the queue in the right-hand lane as a car couldn't get past a lorry. Later in a twist I noted as I headed for Vale Road I saw that this time it was a van in the left-hand lane who couldn't overtake the right-hand queue. The reason for the note - this is the road where they want to widen the pavements by narrowing the road.

Oh and no these works don't feature on the weekly or quarterly roadworks reports, nor the lane closures or road closures report, but there's a heap of carriage resurfacing work that's supposed to have started now and running into next year being done um in lot's of places around Stourport (65 road names). Oh yeah and Central Networks are going to be working around Mitton next year. The lights they have up are listed on the traffic signals report:

Junc Minster Road Worcester Road Stourport 16/09/08 19/09/08

So they were taken down 4 days ago? Seriously these roadworks have been going on for some time now so why don't they feature in any of the reports? What's the point of even publishing them?