Motorists stuck in traffic jams caused by roadworks on a key bridge in Bristol had to contend with something else this evening - the traffic lights being stuck on red for more than an hour.
The temporary lights on the northbound side of Brunel Way, at the start of the Plimsoll Bridge, were frozen on red from before 6pm on Wednesday evening. They caused huge tailbacks as far away as the Long Ashton bypass and Winterstoke Road in Ashton Gate.
Traffic congestion is already a massive problem since yesterday (Tuesday, September 20) when work to repair the Avon Bridge began and restricted the dual carriageway to just one lane in both directions. That was enough to cause long delays on the Portway, the A370 in North Somerset, Winterstoke Road and cause gridlock in Hotwells and into the city centre.
