Council conversations ongoing about traffic lights

There have been complaints at the sheer number of temporary traffic lights across Merseyside.

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00:00Across Wirral, roadworks have been taking place as part of a planned resurfacing programme

00:06to address issues like potholes on the roads, as they do every summer.

00:11Councillors have complained of people waiting at endless temporary traffic lights

00:15across a Merseyside area with no sign of anybody doing any action.

00:22Alongside this, utilities companies have been carrying out planned and emergency repairs,

00:27while Cadent is upgrading the gas network.

00:32However, statistics show that 14,715 days had been saved as a result of works finishing early,

00:40with penalties and fines issued by the Council to companies whose work overruns,

00:45causing delays fire those in the roads.