Jam today

Welcome to Sunny Llandudno!  And enjoy a leisurely drive home, as you stare out of the window at miles of cones, queues and frustrated motorists.

As anticipated, the merry japes of the Highways chappies ensured more than a leisurely drive home for those stuck in a six mile tailback at Abergele on Monday.

The ever helpful but rather unaware Denbighshire County Council deputy leader Eryl Williams said the roadworks were needed to repair the bridge, damaged by a lorry.

He said: “It was a major reconstruction over months, not just this weekend. I sympathise with drivers but they could have researched many other good, countryside routes.”

That would be the A5, then? Assuming anyone can extract themselves from Llandudno, since there's only one route in and out until the ephemeral working crews at the Maesdu disaster area reappear, both the A470 which they'd have to take, and the A5 are not known for being the easiest to drive. Or perhaps he means any of the multitudinous back roads, replete with their merry little pothole collections, tractors, wandering sheep and single track widths. What a scoundrel he is!

An even more helpful  Welsh Assembly Government spokesman said: “One lane was closed over the bank holiday weekend while we undertook essential safety works to the bridge parapets. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause, and hope to reopen it on Wednesday.”

Ah.  But did they close it because it was a bank holiday? You have to wonder if they have a calendar in their offices, which outlines bank holidays and they simply assume that's the best time to close carriageways, without using their brains to consider whether that's also the best time to make everyone navigating the horrendous mess think very carefully about ever visiting Llandudno and other holiday resorts again.

Of maybe someone in the WAG is a '50s buff, and simply wants to give everyone the chance to re-live the halcyon days of that decade, when only a single carriageway connected North Wales to Manchester and Liverpool.

Never mind;  two more bank holidays coming up, so they'll be able to plan carefully which major routes to shut down then, so they can create even longer tailbacks.  Ooh, aren't they awful?