In the wake of Monday’s traffic gridlock across Bishop’s Stortford – with three sets of emergency road works being carried out in close proximity – the highways authority says it has asked the utility companies concerned how things could have been done better. The morning rush hour on January 15 – or Blue Monday, “the most depressing day of the year” – saw motorists at a standstill as it took them well over an hour to make journeys across town of a couple of miles. Some students were up to 45 minutes late for school. One coach was stuck in traffic in Dunmow Road for so long that the Herts and …
