Living on the western edge of Caerleon and working to the west of Newport, the only viable route for me and many others to get to work involves negotiating the Pillmawr Road lane section.
Normally this is not a major problem as the only expletive-invoking incidents involve large 4x4 tanks driven by people with no spatial awareness.
On Wednesday, September 24, however, the lane was once again completely blocked by a lorry whose driver had clearly ignored the ‘Unsuitable For HGV’ sign; after waiting for 10 minutes with no sign of movement, a number of us reversed out of the lane to seek alternative routes.
Each time this happens, hundreds of people are made late for work. HGVs need to be forbidden from using this lane, not just advised that it is ‘unsuitable’.
The lane is a valid thoroughfare and could do with improvement in the form of a few more passing places which wouldn’t cost a lot – a better solution would of course be a completely new road linking Caerleon to Malpas Road.
The only alternative routes at present involve going through the bottleneck of Caerleon (an even bigger nightmare on Wednesdays when the one-way system is blocked by refuse trucks) and then the bottleneck of the Harlequin roundabout, going east to join the M4 queue at junction 24, going north through Ponthir to join the Cwmbran road – all of these alternatives involve a considerable detour.
Dr Robert Taylor, Wentwood Road, Caerleon
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