If the council sticks to its rigid road maintenance scheme (IE let the holes get bigger)they wont have to spend huge sums as a large pot hole will slow the traffic down any way.

Just paint a big yellow circle round the hole (some retard on cummunity service could just about do this in about a week) and hey presto cheap as chips traffic calming system.

Or feed the drunks with cheaper alcohol and let them roll around in yellow freak coloured coats abusing the traffic and let them walk up aberaman by pass slowing down traffic.

Problem solved.

With prolonged work to start on the bypass it is inevitable that motorists will use the B4275 Cardiff Road in Aberaman as an alternative to the predicted queuing traffic.

Would it be too much to expect that the highways department at RCTCBC have taken this into account, as there is already a major problem at peak times on Cardiff Road Aberaman with double parking allowing only single lane use of the carriageway?

Would it be possible to introduce tempary-parking restrictions to one side of the carriageway to ease the inevitable problems that will without doubt arise?

Rhondda Cynon Press Release

Work is set to begin next week (Monday 28th February) to undertake improvements and increase the size the Asda Roundabout, Cwmbach.

The scheme which is programmed for completion by September 2011 will increase the capacity of this vital junction.
The works will consist of widening the entry lanes onto the roundabout together with improvements to highway drainage, street lighting, traffic signs and road markings, and resurfacing of the carriageway and footways.

Persimmon Homes will be carrying out the work, at no cost to the public, in conjunction with the housing development in the area. Road users and bus passengers should benefit from reduced and more reliable travel times.

For the duration of the works, a temporary 30mph speed restriction will be in place to ensure the safety of the travelling public, as well as the workforce.

Councillor Andrew Morgan, the Council’s Cabinet Member for Transport, Customer Care and Emergency Planning, said: “The proposed works will bring much needed important long term road capacity and safety improvements to this section of the A4059 and have been planned to minimise any congestion and delays. However I would urge drivers to look out for temporary signs and allow plenty of time for their journeys while these worthwhile improvements are carried out.

Hell's teeth. Who's going to take 7 months to do this work on the Asda roundabout? One man with his shovel and pick and a donkey and cart. 7 months?????

Now if we had listened to cocoman we could get the scroungers out of the workhouse to help.