![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/council-hypocrites-have-caused-a-traffic-nightmare-on-our-roads-the-fumes-are-so-bad-you-cant-hang-your-washing-out/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/jb-road-comp.jpg&description=RESIDENTS have blasted their local council for causing a traffic nightmare on their roads - and fumes are so bad they can't hang out washing. The decision to build a £180m cancer centre in Whitchurch, Cardiff, has left locals frustrated thanks to heavy traffic congestion caused by roadworks. Roadworks for the new Velindre Cancer centre are causing traffic disruption for localsCredit: WNS The congestion has frustrated residents who say it has affected everything from the people to the environmentCredit: WNS Locals have reported a huge increase in journey times as well as pollutionCredit: WNS Chris Stephens,44, blasted the plans as a "nightmare"Credit: WNS Gill Roberts, 70, is also fuming at the roadworksCredit: WNS In 2018 Cardiff City Council granted planning permission for the new centre with a main access, an emergency access from Hollybush Road and temporary construction access through the old Whitchurch Hospital site. Resident Chris Stephens, 44, said that the traffic chaos is making his life a misery. Temporary traffic lights were installed in his road this week to allow workmen to start building an access road to the hospital site. But the lights have caused gridlock for up to a mile during rush hours and many residents without parking spaces outside their homes. Government project manager Chris said his journey to drop his two children, aged nine and 11, at school, which normally takes around six minutes each way, has been taking him 35 minutes since the lights were put in. He said: 'There have been lots of lost tempers and horns blowing this week, I can tell you. 'And, to think, we've got at least another four weeks of this access road work, then it will be a load of other disruptive work around the site. 'Rush hours in the morning and evening at school times are an absolute nightmare.' Gill Roberts, 70, moved to the area four years ago and said she was 'disgusted' by the decision to place the hospital in Whitchurch. The retired teacher said: 'We've been war){kind=link}
RESIDENTS have blasted their local council for causing a traffic nightmare on their roads – and fumes are so bad they can’t hang out washing.
The decision to build a £180m cancer centre in Whitchurch, Cardiff, has left locals frustrated thanks to heavy traffic congestion caused by roadworks.
In 2018 Cardiff City Council granted planning permission for the new centre with a main access, an emergency access from Hollybush Road and temporary construction access through the old Whitchurch Hospital site.
Resident Chris Stephens, 44, said that the traffic chaos is making his life a misery.
Temporary traffic lights were installed in his road this week to allow workmen to start building an access road to the hospital site.