Drivers warned of road delays

Drivers are facing six-month delays along a busy route between Bloxwich and Pelsall for a gas main improvement scheme.

Temporary traffic signals will be in place along Wolverhampton Road during the scheme which is to get under way at the end of the month.

The route is part of the main link from Bloxwich to Brownhills. Motorists will face hold-ups while work to install plastic piping takes place.

The scheme is being carried out between Clockmill Road and Norton Road, Pelsall, on behalf of National Grid Gas and is due to start the week beginning March 29 and finish in September.

Pelsall councillor Garry Perry said: "There will be disruption and I have no doubt it will cause some chaos at peak times.

"It is an arterial route and gets very busy. But what options do we have as if work has got to be done it has got to done?"

National Grid spokeswoman Jane Taylor said the work will cover a stretch of just under a kilometre and would take part in sections with the majority in the school holidays.

She said: "We intend to work all the way through school holidays up until the beginning of September."Roads generally tend to be quieter then and we hope to be able to get plenty of work done during that period."