Drivers are being warned to expect delays as two busy roads are shut for gas works.

Banks Road and Station Road in Strood closed yesterday morning for SGN utility repairs to take place.

Works are expected to be completed by midnight on February 6.

It meant drivers working on the Medway City Estate were caught up in huge queues yesterday evening, which stretched back from Strood town centre.

One motorist caught up in the congestion stretching back along Sir Thomas Longley Road, told KentOnline at the time: “Currently sat in the estate, it’s the worse I have seen it. It’s so so bad.”

Temporary traffic signals have also been put in place due to water mains work on the B2002 Station Road between Friary Place and Marsh Street.

Medway Council has also announced it is shutting the A228 Frindsbury Hill in the Strood-bound direction from the Sans Pareil roundabout from March 11 to June 21.

It is believed it will be shut for the construction of an entrance to the new Maritime Academy School being built off Frindsbury Hill.

The 5.4-mile stretch of road is one of the busiest in the area and Rochester and Strood MP Kelly Tolhurst fears the closure will cause chaos.