"It's reached fever pitch": Nightmare roadworks clash causes 'total traffic chaos'

Drivers have been battling gridlock carnage across Glossop and parts of Tameside this week as major roadwork projects clash with one another. The A57 Mottram Moor, in Tameside, is currently three weeks into a huge five-month scheme to install a new gas pipeline.

Lane closures are in place along the road, between Market Street in Hollingworth and Stalybridge Road in Mottram - while Back Moor is currently closed southbound, affecting traffic heading from Stalybridge towards Glossop and Sheffield. It's already one of Greater Manchester's most congested areas, with residents having previously told the Manchester Evening News of windows shaking and heavy traffic backed up along the route, while a campaign for a bypass has been rumbling on for decades.

But now even more roadworks in next-door Glossop are adding to drivers' misery. Temporary traffic lights are currently in place on Marple Road, in Charlesworth, which drivers had been using as a way into Greater Manchester while avoiding Mottram - while work is also due to get underway on the A57 in Glossop town centre.

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Glossop resident Steve Mycroft told the M.E.N. that Facebook has been awash with 'pleas for help from people who have been unable to leave their drives, attend medical appointments and get their children to school'. He said on Tuesday: "It’s reached fever pitch."

Robert Largan, Conservative MP for High Peak, has previously spoken out about the Mottram roadworks. He says he has been inundated with reports of congestion affecting his constituents this week.

In a post on Facebook, he wrote: "So many people have been raising the current traffic chaos around Glossop, as a result