Road Closed - Follow Diversion... Er... Oh.

[whichwayisitnow]

AIBU in thinking that if you are going to close a motorway for roadworks and divert that traffic onto an A-road, that you check that it isn't also closed for roadworks a couple of miles away at the junction with another A-road, with another diversion in place.

And that if you are going to close those roads, that you don't already have 8 other (yes really) smaller local roads closed as well.

And if all that is going on, you don't then decide it is the ideal time to set up traffic lights on the only remaining main road, and suck out the drains.

It is an utter shambles round here today - some of the roundabouts have diversion signs pointing in three different directions.

yanbu
we had something similar a few years back.
both entrance roads either end of a large u-shaped area (only way out) where closed one weekend due to building works.
madness.
who decides those things, there is no forward planning at all

In one way I'm pleased that they are actually maintaining the roads for a change, some of them are like driving through a quarry, but all at once? And sending diverted traffic up to a roundabout that has diversion signs relating to another diversion from somewhere else? Everybody is going round in circles, and ending up getting completely gridlocked on one small road through town which has parking all along one side, chicanes and the Devil's own speed humps. Followed by traffic lights. The only side road off it is also closed.

You’re not near Chester are you?

We left friends last night at 9pm and got caught in a loop where we got caught at closed roads with no obvious diversion. They’ve moved as well so we weren’t familiar with the area.

Oh well only added 45 minutes to the journey home

I find it really confusing when I come across diversion signs but they don't say where they are from or to. I have an ex boyfriend who was once an hour late to a hospital appointment as he just blindly followed all the diversion signs and ended up miles away from where he wanted to go! (To be fair, he was very intelligent but had absolutely no common sense......)

No, not near Chester, they must all be at it. I think the councils must be trying to use up their maintenance budgets by the end of March.

The biggest problem with the diversion signs is that there are several lots of diverted traffic all ending up at the same place, and no way of telling which one of the many diversion signs is theirs.
To add to the confusion, half of the signs are for local traffic where there are little lanes shut in the villages, so they direct you down another village lane and back on the A-road, whereupon after a quarter of a mile a sign tells you the road is closed and to turn round and go back whence you came. All right for us local yokels, who know the back-of-beyond short long cut, but everyone else is stuffed.

Councils trying to spunk away money before the new tax year.