Heavy traffic has built up around a business estate causing chaos for motorists trying to head home.

Drivers working on the Medway City Estate are caught up in huge queues stretching back from Strood town centre.

It took one driver more than an hour just to drive half a mile from the bottom of Sir Thomas Longley Road to the roundabout junction with Whitewall road.

The queues are understood to be due to gas main works shutting the A228 Frindsbury Hill in the Strood-bound direction from the Sans Pareil roundabout.

The works have shut the B2002 Station Road both ways from Bowes Road to the A228.

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

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

And there could be more problems on the way with Medway Council announcing 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 of such a busy road will cause chaos for residents.

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