Motorists are expressing their frustration at being stuck in long queues due to road works and temporary traffic lights, or the lack of, across the town.
David Briggs told wilmslow.co.uk "At 11am (Wednesday, 9th August) leaving Wilmslow there was a 1.5 mile queue as far back as the Honey Bee from roadworks and temporary single carriageway lights after the airport tunnels.
"There was a 30 minute wait to reach the M56/Hale lights/roundabout but no traffic waiting in the other direction. Simple monitoring and real time adjustment of the temporary lights would have reduced waiting time by at least two thirds."
Just after 5pm on Thursday, 10th August, traffic heading out of Wilmslow on the A538 was queuing back from Airport City to the roundabout at Waters.
Additionally local residents have contacted wilmslow.co.uk reporting long delays due to the closure of Cliff Road and and Chancel Lane.
One driver said "On Monday when it took me 45 minutes to get from Styal Road to Wilmslow and it's now affecting Stanneylands Road too as others find a quicker route home."
Another told us "It took me an hour to do 8 miles on Monday evening coming past the airport from Altrincham, first stopped at temp lights near the garage then queued from the prison to Manchester Road... why don't they plan better."
Cliff Road and and Chancel Lane is used as short cut by many drivers so currently everyone is having to go to the end of Styal Road to join Manchester Road which is causing problems.
One driver said "They haven't even bothered to put temporary lights at the junction of Styal Road and Manchester Road so the queues are terrible."
Another responded "They definately need to do this, the queue tails back all the way past Styal Prison because nobody will let you out on Manchester Road."
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If work was actually going on that would be something but half the time these cones and lights are unnecessary. They should not be in place if work is not happening.
( Not CEC Highways Dept )...
The Perfect Storm, of gridlock and motoring chaos in our county continues, Road Rage and frustration rears its ugly head, fortunately not duplicating the opening scenes of Michael Douglas’s character Mr D-Fens storming off and starting world war three as in ‘Falling Down’... but plenty of time yet !!!! Keep Calm and Carry on folks !... and This is a ‘Carry On’... AGAIN !!
So we queuing drivers have got it all wrong. listen to the experts to kid you "rain is dry".
Just another example of all those connected with this rotten borough believe they can continue to fool us about everything.
Time is up Cheshire East, we've had enough of your long term, costly incompetence.
Next elections, boot 'em out and hopefully we elect enough independents, including RoWs, to have a total clear out of the rubbish inhabiting & being over paid at this council.
Those in charge have once again proved their disdain for those who pay their wages. Cheshire East is a Kafkaesque shambles and GMC is a profit driven business. The incompetence surrounding roads, planning and a complete failure to build any infrastructure other than more retail outlets should be resulting in criminal charges and a reversion to Town Councils. I suggest a starting place is for a class action by those whose children have failed to secure a school place at the school nearest their homes.
I have no idea how council leaders can show their faces in public, but I guess that's what everyone wanted and voted for recently.
The town centre itself is a shadow of what it should be. Has anyone seen what they've achieved in Altrincham? Where are all our thriving independents?
But I get the feeling this town is for the few and not the many. I.e. If you drive a oversized car, live behind a gate and have 4 holidays a year. None of this touches you.
CEC do not care about normal people.
Maybe it would help to speed up the work if they put increased men onto the job, instead of the odd couple we see scattered around. This is not good enough.
Yes, it would inconvenience the Amazon and DHL traffic but it would stop the daily grind experienced by thousands of other motorists leaving Wilmslow.
Meanwhile how many new houses?