Sunday chaos, but worse is to come
Traffic congestion in Stirling on Sunday morning was an absolute joke. There were problems in St Ninians and Bannockburn and vehicles travelling to Stirling along Causewayhead Road were held up for so long by the roadworks at its junction with Cornton Road there was gridlock at the Clock Roundabout.
The road workers were taking too long to change the traffic lights and appeared to me inexperienced and oblivious to the traffic build up.
From what I could see, they were too busy smoking and shouting back and forth to their work mates.
Work at the junction has taken ages, during which changes to the layout of cones has caused so much confusion that motorists sometimes find themselves on the wrong part of the road into the Cornton.
I can only think that the problems we are experiencing now will be as nothing to what is in store next year when Kerse Road bridge closes for six months.
Stirling Council should be ashamed they allowed this and for so long. It will cost locals and shopkeepers thousands of pounds and while the work will have a major impact on the city, trains will be largely unaffected.
Maybe if the railway adopted the way other countries work it would have been done in a weekend.
It’s funny, when the railway bridge at the Cornton-Causewayhead junction was replaced it was done over a few days. Was that because if it took so long the rail companies would have lost too much revenue?
I am sure, we will see more road chaos when work starts on increasing the heights of the parapets on Riverside Bridge which will have to be done because they were built too low when it was replaced .
Friends family and tourists are now going to avoid coming to Stirling because the council has allowed major roads to be closed.
Disgruntled Car driver