We're On the Road to Nowhere ; Birmingham Is Facing 14 Weeks of Jams and Frustration After Birmingham City Council This Week Started Major Roadworks On Busy Arterial Roads. Transport Reporter Campbell Docherty Looks Back Over the First Days of Disruption -and Forward, in an Attempt to Divine a Brighter Future for the West Midland Motorist.

Birmingham Post › January 14, 2004

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Moaning about road cones and tailbacks is nothing new, but this year the West Midlands driver is limbering up to break all records for whingeing.

It is only the second proper working week of the year and already we have witnessed city council roadworks cause gridlock on a grand scale during the Birmingham rush hour.

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We're On the Road to Nowhere ; Birmingham Is Facing 14 Weeks of Jams and Frustration After Birmingham City Council This Week Started Major Roadworks On Busy Arterial Roads. Transport Reporter Campbell Docherty Looks Back Over the First Days of Disruption -and Forward, in an Attempt to Divine a Brighter Future for the West Midland Motorist.

Random potholes opening up on the M6 around Spaghetti Junction in the past few months have also meant disruptive works will be brought forward a year to this spring.

The city council will also start strengthening work on Spaghetti Junction in the summer and this programme is likely to coincide with...

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