Temporary Lights ‘Stuck On Red’ Cause Hours Of A55 & A483 Tailbacks

Faulty lights stuck on red caused hours of delays for people trying to use the A483 and A55 junction near to the ‘Posthouse’ roundabout.

UPDATE 9pm: We have had a few people in touch to say Highways workers are on the site and now operating the lights manually, such as this tweet:

@wrexham 2 hours 25mins to get home from chester. Guys were manually working the lights as we come thru

— Claire Louise (@clairew930) February 25, 2015

UPDATE 8:10pm: Cheshire Police have said they have ‘officers in the area’ in the last twenty minutes, with one person saying they had reported the issue to North Wales Police and they had referred it to Cheshire. Cheshire Police have earlier said they have made the Highways Agency aware of the problems.

UPDATE 8pm: Problems persist – we have just been as close as we can get without getting in the queue – to the Doddleston Lane bridge over the bypass and took these shots just before 8pm… first a view towards Rossett of the queues heading back, and the second northbound towards Chester:

Original story below…
The traffic light set on the new junction at the top of Wrexham Road were apparently ‘stuck on red’, with someone else telling us on the rare occasion they did change it was for a ‘matter of seconds’.

Due to this tailbacks were created back to Rossett, with travel affected from around 4:30pm well past 7pm.

As of 6:30pm one eyewitness told us there was no response on site by either police or highways, or work people attached to the redevelopment.

The following is a view of the traffic issues caused by the faulty lights:

As usual, our @wrexham twitter account was sent information, as was our Facebook page and email account:

Left Chester an hour ago and still haven't reached the business park. KFC will get worried if I'm not there soon. @KFC_UKI @wrexham

— Adam (@AFuller1990) February 25, 2015

Julia said “Why hasn’t anyone fixed it? The southbound cars were just taking their chances on the red light when the traffic from the garden centre road has stopped.”

Someone at the Highway Agency needs sacking over the #A55 and #A483 traffic problems between @wrexham and Chester

— Don™ (@DonWxm) February 25, 2015

Ed Jones said “Just come off the a55 and took ages to get through. Then it turned into a free for all with no one from Rossett able to get across due to light failure. Is anyone high up bothered?”

@wrexham #A483 road works lights on constant red. 2hrs to get home, people running the red light. Madness again

— Peter Brookman (@Pierre_Le_Fruff) February 25, 2015

As usual people managed to see the lighter side of things, with this topical bit of wit:

@wrexham At the Brit Awards later, there is a special non-music award with the Post House favourite for 'Britain's Most Hated Roundabout'.

— Craig Jones (@craigyjones17) February 25, 2015

Wrexham.com could not spot any updates from official sources during this issue, nor informed unofficial sources.

Pic: sent to us by James while he was stuck on the bypass.