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I always noticed that the car park was pretty full at 7.30 (1 or 2 spaces left) but it was still around 50% full at 10pm at night.
I suspect some of the cars belonged to people living in the housing estate next door.

I also can’t believe people would park at the station to go to the shops: people park in the other car park or just park on the pavement on the road.

At the council meeting, it was said that the charges were being brought in to benefit rail passengers. I haven’t bothered to ask Cllr Bithell how the rebate for rail passengers works. It’s increased the cost of getting the train to Chester by 30%.

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Yesterday we got the Arriva bus from St Martins to Ellesmere. It was due at 10:16, it didn’t turn up until 10:29 and we were the only ones on the bus the whole way (maybe everyone else had given up waiting).

The timetable at the stop did say “all times are approximate”…

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I think at the moment the problems are being caused by the traffic lights on the a55 roundabout. Once these are replaced we’ll see if the congestion is better than before…

Was anybody working there this weekend? You’d hope so if they’ve left the roadworks there over bank holiday weekend, when they can take them away for Chester races.

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[i]There will be no roadworks over the Easter period.[/i]

Really?

I think that translates as “the lane closures and traffic lights will still be in place but we won’t be doing any work”.

 

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Looks much worse on my Android tablet (sorry!)

I’d upload a screenshot but can’t see how to do it. There’s 1 news story per ‘line’ and each one almost fills the screen.

It’s not too bad on my mobile phone, but I still preferred the old site – just zoom in on the bit you want to see rather than having to scroll down for ages.

Also I can’t see the twitter feed anywhere.

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@WrecsamGirl 19867 wrote:

I can’t help but think that Wrexham could benefit from having a ring road like in Chester, but where one would go I don’t know? Either way are road network is a mess isn’t it?

There is a top section of an ‘inner ring road’ at the moment. The rest of the route is rather narrow and has lots of junctions and you would probably need to demolish some things to do anything about it.
You could always make the whole of the narrow southern section (Halfords-Rhosddu Road) one way so the town centre would be in the middle of a giant roundabout? :D

There’s nearly an outer ring road – shame they didn’t make the southern industrial estate link road dual carriageway and carry it on to the Johnstown junction on the A483. I think WAG have more pressing things to sort out up here though.

Congestion in Wrexham does seem disproportionate to the number of people who lube here though. The council isn’t exactly doing anything to encourage people to leave their cars at home either.

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Have the roadworks finished yet?

I’ve got back from holiday and they were due to be finished a few days ago, and was looking forward to them being gone when I went back to work, but having seen the article on Wrexham.com about the temporary lights breaking in guessing they’re nowhere near finished?

Those temporary traffic lights never seem to have worked properly every since they were put up, and seemed to spend most of the time on red anyway.

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Last week someone had been up near me filling in potholes… That didn’t exist beforehand! There’s now 2 long bumpy strips of tarmac sticking up proud above what used to be a nice smooth road.

Yet they can’t manage to go and fill some real potholes down the road which have actually caused damage to vehicles.

No wonder the council is skint.

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It was mild (+10° from this morning) and drizzly about 5:30 this evening.

Overtaking lane of the A483 at Rhostyllen and Park Road in Rhosymedre were still part flooded though. Was there a biblical downpour earlier or can the roads just not cope with normal weather?!

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What’s actually being done to make our roads safer?

People driving down the Wrexham by bypass early in the morning with no tail lights is a regular thing (and the drivers are completely oblivious to others flashing/beeping at them). People pulling out in front of others, and driving on the wrong side if the road is also normal it seems now.

There have been several road safety crackdowns over the years but they don’t seem to have made a difference. How do you monitor things like this to determine whether they have been effective? Do you see if the rate of complaints drops over the following months?

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