 Hundreds of people were stuck for as long as three hours in a nightmare gridlock at a multi-storey car park in Cardiff. Some furious motorists caught up in the Saturday evening chaos abandoned their cars as St David's car park ground to a near standstill. Tempers flared with some people shouting and swearing at the lengthy delays, one woman who has been waiting two hours to leave said. The situation was still not resolved by Saturday evening, with people complaining that they had been queuing for hours with very little movement. Nicola Warrick, her partner and her children had come from Caerphilly to Cardiff to celebrate her son's ninth birthday. Drivers were tooting their horns at frustration at the massive queues (Picture: Media Wales) They say had to give up plans to visit their grandparents to end the day with birthday cake because they were stuck in a traffic jam going nowhere. The family was left marooned inside their car on the seventh story of the car park with the end of the celebration ruined, she said. There were similar scenes at the 2,000-space car park during the busy Easter bank holiday. That gridlock was blamed on heavy congestion and you can read more about that here. Nicola said people have been told the huge delay has been caused by roadworks in Cardiff city centre: 'We got here at 4.30pm and we are still here,' she said just before 6.30pm. 'We did go away for half an hour when we saw how bad it was and went down and asked security who told us it was caused by road works. It's ridiculous, absolutely crazy. 'We are desperate to get moving but at first we could not even get out of our parking space. 'There are people kicking off and sweary people shouting at each other because everyone is fed up. 'It's not a nice end to our day and my son is desperate to get home to play with his birthday presents. There's no end in sight.' Nicola said they had moved the length of){kind=link}
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Hundreds of people were stuck for as long as three hours in a nightmare gridlock at a multi-storey car park in Cardiff.
Some furious motorists caught up in the Saturday evening chaos abandoned their cars as St David’s car park ground to a near standstill.
Tempers flared with some people shouting and swearing at the lengthy delays, one woman who has been waiting two hours to leave said.
The situation was still not resolved by Saturday evening, with people complaining that they had been queuing for hours with very little movement.