Furious shoppers stuck 'for four hours' in major UK city centre gridlock traffic jam
Furious shoppers stuck 'for four hours' in major UK city centre gridlock traffic jam
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Anrgy drivers were left queueing to exit a car park for almost four hours after gridlock traffic spread through a UK city centre on Saturday night. One man said he tried to leave St David's car park in Cardiff at 4.45pm but couldn't get out until 8.30pm after a shopping trip with his partner and one-year-old baby. The driver, who chose not to be named, also heard other stressed and furious shoppers beeping their horns and shouting, while one couple simply accepted their fate and put Netflix on in the car.
The man had parked his vehicle on level seven of the multi-storey and returned to find queues of traffic reaching the highest levels. Images showed stationary cars lined up and down the length of the car park, with the issue not resolved until after 7pm.
It is not the first time the centre has had problems reported in its car park. Other incidents over Christmas, and on several other occasions, have caused the area to become gridlocked, WalesOnline reports. The man said: "We went to leave at about 5pm, paid our ticket and went up to the car. We could see it was quite busy from that point. We were on level seven, parked furthest away from the exit.
"We could see the queue was huge so we decided to go for a coffee and get our one-year-old son fed, bearing in mind it was a Saturday night and Cardiff was starting to get rowdy." When the family returned around 45 minutes later, nothing had changed. The driver noticed some cars had not moved at all while they were gone. "There was even a couple watching Netflix in their car because they were fully committed to being there for a long time," he said.
