A frustrated driver has accused Cadent for causing delays on a busy High Wycombe road.

Brian Pierce, who lives on a cul-de-sac along Cressex Road, noticed the Cadent gasworks on Cressex Road after long queues started forming when the works started on April 6.

The only way to his home is through the temporary traffic lights.

One set of lights is located between Gibson Road and the Holmers Farm Way and Cressex Road mini roundabout, and the other one is near Booker Place.

The Cadent gas work is due to finish on June 20, but Mr Pierce suspects they will go on for much longer.

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For weeks in April, drivers waited to get through the temporary traffic lights, while no significant progress was done on the works site, he claimed.

At worst, the queue stretched nearly the whole length of Cressex Road to Marlow Road.

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Mr Pierce said: “For five weeks nothing happened!

“All they have done is a hole on the ground.

“They are supposed to finish the works within ten weeks, but they have only just started.

“There’s been a guy sat there just looking at the traffic lights for weeks, sat in the traffic management van."

Mr Pierce was unhappy how residents and road users were “kept in the dark”.

“If someone would just explain that there’s a delay.

“Although it’s a non-classified road, it’s as busy as many A-roads, and when it’s blocked it causes a chock-a-block elsewhere.”

He told the gas company to reduce the section between the temporary traffic lights as they were working on one small section only.

The workers on the site told him that the company needs to get permission from the gas inspector and the council since pipes are exposed.

Changing the location of the traffic management system would require a permission from the authorities.

Mr Pierce said: “It’s ridiculous, where’s the common sense?”

“Someone will pay for that, and probably us in some way, they’ll put it on our gas bill.

“I can understand, when they dug up the road, the layout can be different unexpected, but they should move the length between the traffic lights.

“It’s very frustrating for five weeks you’re stuck in traffic.

“I’ve been driving since 1968, there used to be the way of the rule of road, where you would give space by flashing your lights, but that seems to have gone.”

Cadent was contacted for a comment.

Long queues were reported around the Handy Cross roundabout in High Wycombe today (May 17), while traffic on M40 below was flowing.

While there are no works on the roundabout itself, roadworks nearby are likely to cause traffic jams in the area.