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"Traffic lights are short - not giving enough time for traffic to move accross and around into Manor Way. Took 20 mins to get from the Monico to the lights. Only enough time for two cars to clear."

"The new roadworks between J37 and J36 on the M4 are horrendous. Down to two lanes on each side with one lane not big enough to swing a cat... This is going to be going on for 10 weeks. Unbelievable. What are they doing?"

"Heavy goods vehicles should be restricted to the inside lane of a two lane carriageway particularly from Cardiff J32 to J29 and through the Brynglas tunnels at Newport. This morning's lorry accident (20 September 2005) is proof that there is a need for a crawler lane between J32 and J29 or a restriction on the size of vehicles in the outside lane."

"When these lights are not working there are no traffic problems. When they are operating there is traffic waiting in all approaches. If you live on the estate it's hard to get off it! Mornings and teatime are the worst. However when they have been out of operation there are no problems - the traffic runs freely. PS What's the point of them being on in the evenings and Sundays when there isn't the same volume of traffic? I don't know anyone that understands or agrees with them beong there."

"My gripe is about road users not using their indicators. In Merthyr you have to be a mind reader. I once told a motorist that there was something wrong with his indicators he said they were working. OK, I then told him, why not use them then? I can't repeat what he said to me."

"I drive the M4 regularly and compared to the rest of the UK we are country cousins. The M4 through Cardiff always has been second rate since its sustandard opening and resufracing fiasco. It is inadequate to carry the traffic load and being two-laned through Cardiff is subject to chariot racing lorries who are barely able to pass over the length of the 2 laned section. It is, like the Welsh Assembly, inadequate."

"It is made difficult enough for drivers no matter which direction they are travelling in, from minor to major, or vice versa. A system allowing each lane to move on their own turn would avoid tailbacks on the A473, Tonteg and Tonteg hill. Also, adding part-time traffic signals to the Southern Way roundabout off the A48 would be a very good and safe way to prevent adverse tailbacks. The last thing is, why isn't the north-bound slip road open to allow traffic onto the A470 at Treforest. Opening this road would lower the amount of tailbacks at Ynsangharad Road (the main route)."

"Are we being made to not enjoy driving in and around Cardiff??? We can't do the speed limit because of stupid obstacles laid in the road. And they can't even keep them the same. Every hump through Gabalfa feels like its gonna break your car and in Llanrumney they got a different type that takes the inside tread off your tyres, enticing everyone to drive down the middle of the road to miss them."

"I joined the M4 westbound at Cardiff West at 1.45pm on August 12th 2005. Before the next exit a sign warned the motorway ahead was closed. By now it was too late to avoid the jams encircling Bridgend. It turns out the M4 had been closed all day. But traffic joining from Cardiff was given no warning and no chance to plan altenative routes. Why not?"

"I am really frustrated about the manner in which the Old Severn Crossing is closed at the a wind rate of 40mph. Whereas I realise it is done for safety's sake, the wind only severely effects high sided vehicles. We unfortunte car drivers get caught up because the authority will not discriminate and allow car to cross when it's perfectly safe to do so. Can something be done?"

"We don't want the A469 to be like Manor Way thanks. There are now to be three more sets of lights south of the roundabout on Beulah Road. I think the Council like the colours or have bought a job lot!"

"Why is there no traffic lights as you come off the M4 east bound to go to Bridgend? There is congestion there now. J36 is now a traffic nightmare at all times of the day."

"I travel over the old bridge to work every day. There are no signs on the A48 between the Coldra and Chepstow to tell you the bridge is closed so, unless I check the BBC travel report - which is sometimes late in updating info - or phone the bridge, I end up driving to Chepstow and having to go all the way back to Magor services on the M48 to get to the new bridge. Why can't the Highways Agency or Monmouthshire County Council put signs along the A48? Often the closures are unnecessary anyway - Avon & Somerset Police can't, apparently, afford to man the bridge - as it would be perfectly safe for cars to drive over the old bridge."

"Signs indicating 50 mph limit at the toll plaza, are misleading. To use flashing advisory 50 signs on gantries when the mandatory limit is not properly indicated, with repeaters on the lamp-posts as required by regulation, simply supports my view, and that of most others ,that income generation is the name of the game - far better to have the new style radar triggered flashing mandatory style signs which are successful in other parts of Europe."

"There are too many unecessary roadworks, building silly speeding measures on our roads when it's not the ordinary driver at fault. We need police out catching max power fanatics who are the real danger to people. We don't need mobile tax collectors on our motorway bridges either - after all the motorways are the safest roads in Britain. So it proves one thing - they are only there for the easy money, greed with a capital G."

"Why can't the planning people insist upon the road works to operate 24hrs a day to reduce the massive misery the work has on the daily commuter?"

Graham Powell in Ystrad Mynach calls for better co-ordination of roadworks:

"I travel to & from home to the Coryton roundabout 5 days a week. There are currently roadworks on the A470 & Nantgarw Hill. Surely the A470 could have been delayed until the Nantgarw work was complete thus avoiding the total chaos we now have."

"I think that the council have got it right by put this new system in because at rush hour you could be waiting in a queue for about half hour."

"Considering this is the main route into Wales it's just not good enough to have only two lanes on an important motorway. The traffic at Cardiff Gate (J30) between 5 and 6.30pm is gradually getting worse and worse, and the hills on this stretch slow the lorries down and this leads to problems when one lorry decides that he is going faster than the one in front, but takes over a mile to get past because the other lorry doesn't want to lose speed and doesn't slow down.

"This leads to impatience from some drivers and it doesn't help that some of them decide that they don't want to wait their turn to overtake in the outside lane and go up the inside lane and try to squeeze into small gaps at the end. Any accident causes a major headache, which is only to be expected on 2 lanes. The queues after a match at the Millennium Stadium must be really infuriating, especially for the losing supporters."

"Between J35 & J37 M4 (and maybe beyond) signs showing 50mph when good conditions or lanes closed. When lanes all open then showing END several signs up. One day they will actually mean it and people will be ignoring them as usual. This happens too often on open clear roads."

"Why is there always roadworks on the A470? There seems to have been ongoing roadworks on the A470 for the last 5 years. Why don't the various agencies get together and do all the work in one go, and do they really need to shut lanes to pick up litter or cut branches?"

Norma Edwards in Treharris is also concerned:

"Can you tell me why we have to endure all theseroad works on the A470 at the same time? Nantgarw and Taffs Well, both long term projects, and not to mention all the other not so long term projects. For the last 3 years there has been road works making my life hell not to mention of the thousands of others. Who is the idiot that agreed this?"

Robert Joslin in Pontypridd adds his observation:

"What flaming clot thought the Tongwynlais ramp needed nanny traffic lights to join the A470? Utter chaos and tailbacks to Upper Boat!"

"I moved to south Wales 18 months ago. Before this, I had a clean licence for 12 years. I now have 6 points on my licence. I work as a community support worker and commute to the Forest of Dean four times a week. Every week I pass mobile camera units at places which aren't accident blackspots. My last conviction was for doing 60mph (at the speed of traffic) on the A40 in a non-built up area where the authorities arbitrarily enforced a 50mph limit."

"Are there any plans to deal with the awful traffic situation that there is? All that money spent on new signs just for them to let us know that there are queues ahead ... very strange."

"i have been charged for speeding twice in October at the new 50mph zone in the toll plaza on the new bridge.I took the word plaza to mean 'where the motorway lanes end and the road widens for the tolls'. Now there are no less than 6 signs 300 mtrs before the plaza (50mph). I know of two people in a similar position. However I already have six points so I will lose my job of 10 years - any others please come forward."

"Nine weeks of work, tail backs to junction 35. If they used that time to build another junction for Llanharan, Vale of Glamorgan, Cowbridge, Talbot Green, Cardiff, joining up to the A48 and the airport, we would be better off."

"At the beginning of this 'go to diesel' campaign the stuff was measurably less expensive than petrol, recently the difference can only be measured with a feeler gauge, and a thin one at that...

"Now we've all gone over to diesel we are now being told that they can only reduce the price of petrol but not diesel. Oh! well, it just goes to prop up my theory that we are being taken to the cleaners each time we put motive fuel in the tank."

"Why should we have to pay to enter Wales from that place across the river? The Skye authority, along with the Scottish parliament, have seen fit to buy out the private toll collection company - we should do the same."

"Firstly, there was the expense if building roundabouts which were designed to give a syncronous flow of traffic from all direction, and now there is the expense of installing traffic lights on all roundabouts to completely defeat the object of a roundabout in the first place.

"We need to go to back in time and adopt a system the same as the US, and just have crossroads with traffic lights - which is what the roundabouts have now all been converted to. But let's save all that expense, and invest it wisely instead on a public transport system that is user friendly and convenient for all, as has been sucessfully done in Croydon, Surrey."

Huw also had a tough time commuting:

"I worked at Heathrow and lived in Bridgend for a number of years, travelling home on weekends. My journey to London late on a Sunday night would take me around 2 hours, and my journey to Wales on a Friday night would take me upwards of 4 hours (the record was 6hrs 37mins.)

"In an effort to end my frustration and live a little longer I resorted to rail travel. It was by far a more expensive option, and where I would board the train (Reading) there would consistently be standing room only until Swindon or even Bristol sometimes.

"In an effort to end my frustration and live a little longer I packed in my job at LHR and emigrated to Dubai!! WAKE UP.... INVESTORS WILL DO THE SAME !!"