Hopes for a “vast improvement from today”: Cabinet Member meets councillor at St David’s roundabout roadworks
A car got “stuck” at the St David’s roundabout in Ewloe this morning after a row of cones was placed across the road in the direction it was travelling, a Flintshire councillor has said.
Cllr Helen Brown, who represents Hawarden: Aston for Reform UK, said in a Facebook post that cars were backing up at the site and that pedestrians trying to access a business “weren’t sure how to walk there”.
Cllr Brown said signage at the site had “caused even more problems over the weekend”.
She made the comments after a site meeting at the roundabout this morning with the council’s Cabinet Member for Streetscene, Cllr Glyn Banks.
Cllr Brown said she and Cllr Banks had spoken to the person in charge at the site, and she said she now hoped to see a “vast improvement from today”.
She said further discussions with Flintshire County Council are due to take place this week.
Cllr Brown said: “I will keep monitoring the situation over the days, weeks and months.”
The works at the site drew criticism from Cllr Brown and another Flintshire councillor last week.
Cllr Linda Thomas, the Labour ward councillor for Hawarden: Ewloe, said on Thursday evening that the situation was “unacceptable” and that she would “take it up 1st thing on Monday”.
Cllr Brown has also called the works “absolute mayhem” and said the scheme was “running over now by 6 weeks and that’s subject to change”.
Flintshire County Council confirmed on Thursday that completion of the works has slipped to mid-July, citing “on-site engineering difficulties”.
The works comprise two schemes.
A £900,000 Flintshire County Council scheme is redesigning the St David’s roundabout to a Dutch-style layout, where vehicles will give way to pedestrians and cyclists at parallel crossings.
A separate Welsh Government active travel scheme is installing new pedestrian crossings on the A494 Ewloe slip roads and widening footways under the A494.
Both schemes began at the end of January and were originally due to be complete by mid-May.
They were designed with the North and Mid Wales Trunk Road Agent and are being delivered by Jones Bros Civil Engineering UK.
In its statement, the council thanked the public “for their continued patience and cooperation”.
Cllr Brown said in a Facebook reply: “It’s Streetscene thanking people for patience, not me, my patience has also gone.”
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