ALEX SCAPENS More roadwork pain for drivers on ‘worst route’

DRIVERS on one of Stockport’s ‘worst affected’ routes for roadworks are being hit with congestion pain again.

Two-way traffic lights are on Otterspool Road, in Romiley, once again - this time while Solutions SK install a cycle track on behalf of Stockport Council.

They went up on January 16 and are scheduled to last until March 9 between 9.30am and 3.30pm.

Work is causing tailbacks along Otterspool Road, into Bredbury in one direction and back onto Dooley Lane in the other.

It follows 10 days of twoway temporary traffic lights last November for tree and hedge pruning work - one of five separate times these or ‘stop go boards’ were used on the road in 2017.

And major sewage works also saw traffic lights on Otterspool Road for around nine months in 2016.

Chris Collins, 41, who drives the route, said: “It has become a regular thing to have some form of traffic signals between Marple and Romiley.

“The problem is it is a long road with no alternatives so once you are stuck in it there’s no real chance to escape another way.

“It must be the worst affected road in Stockport for temporary traffic lights. It is very frustrating.”

Councillor Syd Lloyd, from the Bredbury Green and Romiley ward, said: “They are always doing something to Otterspool Road, it is almost every few weeks. We had it for nine months for sewage work.”

This time work includes the installation of the track between Vale Road and Bunkers Hill as well as an upgrading of pedestrian islands.

A council spokesman said: “Solutions SK, working on behalf of Stockport council, are undertaking improvement works on Otterspool Road, Romiley, between the junctions of Bunkers Hill and Stockport Road. These works are scheduled to finish on March 9 and require the use of temporary traffic signals.”