Wooburn and Bourne End roadworks cause misery for residents

Roadworks and temporary traffic lights along The Parade, Cores End Road and Town Lane have been plaguing residents in both Wooburn Green and Bourne End, with one resident branding it "ridiculous". 

In recent months, Cores End Road - which links the two villages - has been dug up multiple times for different works by companies like Swish Fibre and Instalcom. 

Hawks Hill was shut last week

Meanwhile, there were roadworks on the main shopping street The Parade last week by Thames Water, while Hawks Hill was also shut completely. 

After a few days reprieve, drivers are stuck in queues once again on Town Lane today, while roadworks are carried out on a side road, Fromer Road. 

Sharing his frustration with Buckinghamshire Council on Twitter, one resident said those living in the area felt like "prisoners" with different sets of roadworks causing misery for months. 

Cores End Road has been dug up many times

On June 17 he said: "So once again Cores End Road between Wooburn and Bourne End has been dug up. There is not a week goes by that we do not have to queue at traffic lights to get out of our village.

"Every single week a different company digs that road up and sets up traffic lights to stop us travelling freely. It’s beyond ridiculous."

And on June 28 he said: "So this week Hawks Hill to the left has road closed and Cores End Road has the never ending roadworks and traffic lights meaning the queues are stretching across the end of my road 50 yards away.

Roadworks on The Parade last week

"Whoever has approved this together needs to send an apology to all village residents."

But that was not the end of the misery - less than one week without temporary traffic lights and they were back with more digging on Cores End Road. 

The resident added: "This is quite ridiculous and someone needs to be moved to a different job in your traffic department. We are prisoners."

Roadworks on Town Lane today

But just one day after the temporary traffic lights disappeared from Cores End Road, they reappared in Wooburn near the Fromer Road junction. 

The frustrated resident that the works were taking place in Fromer Road, but the traffic lights are there "purely so they can park their digger and van on the main road." 

He said: "Please can someone immediately instruct them to remove this. It may be convenient for them but is deeply inconvenient for us."

The work in Fromer Road is being carried out by Buckinghamshire Council to patch the road surface but is not scheduled to go on past today.