Guernsey Electricity is working hard to fix a fault underneath the road between St Georges Hall and La Piette Hotel, with engineers working through the night, in the rain, to sort the problem out.
However, the traffic lights are still there, meaning cars were backed up in every direction this morning, as motorists tried to navigate their way around the island.
There were queues of traffic up to the Crossways junction by 08:00 again, with lanes miles away from town also becoming gridlocked as people tried to find alternative routes to school and work.
Rue du Tetre, which is the lane behind Les Bourgs Hospice, was gridlocked with traffic backed up in both directions the length of the lane, with drivers having to abandon their cars to help direct the traffic so the road could be cleared.
As well as people being late for work, children were late for school – with unconfirmed reports of one school bus delivering pupils to one of the private colleges one hour and forty five minutes late yesterday. That same bus was reportedly stuck in traffic this morning.
UPDATE: The temporary traffic lights in place between St Georges Hall and La Piette Hotel will be there until the weekend. We currently expect the work to be completed over the weekend and the road return to normal on Monday. Sorry for the disruption. pic.twitter.com/SOARQQK4la
— Guernsey Electricity (@gsyelectricity) October 11, 2018
Guernsey Electricity has again apologised for the disruption caused by the unavoidable emergency works.
In a post on social media, the utility firm said the work should be completed over the weekend, and the road along the front will be back to normal before the Monday morning rush hour.
In a further statement, a spokesperson for Guernsey Electricity said the lights will definitely be in place until the weekend.
“Guernsey Electricity’s team of engineers have been working through the night to undertake repair works to fix the low voltage cable fault on the distribution network along St George’s Esplanade. Guernsey Electricity would like to apologise for any disruption caused and assure islanders that the team are making every effort to complete the works as safely and quickly as possible.”
Guernsey Electricity also confirmed the fault is unrelated to the island wide power cut which happened last Monday.
Pictured: Traffic backed up Rue du Tetre by Les Bourgs Hospice.