Eager to avoid frustrating delays, however, rush-hour motorists have begun taking alternative routes along the Clepington Road-Strathmartine Road corridor and other nearby residential side streets.

However, some have complained that refuse collections by city council personnel during the morning rush-hours are adding to the delays.

Now some motorists have suggested the council do its bit to ease early morning traffic congestion by altering kerbside collection times for the removal of domestic rubbish, at least until the roadworks in the area are completed.

“Every Tuesday or Wednesday the council empties the bins on Clepington Road between 8.00am and 8.30am and while I fully appreciate they have to be emptied, surely the council could time it so that they keep major routes clear of bin lorries at peak times,” one frustrated motorist told the Tele today.

“There are plenty of streets around Clepington Road that are much quieter that would take over an hour to clear, so if they did them first then went to Clepington Road, they would arrive after the rush-hour traffic had past.

“The council needs to be more mindful that right now there are roadworks making Clepington Road busier.”

However, Dundee City Council has no plans to amend the waste collection timetable or route. A spokesman said, “The council waste collection services are affected by roadworks like everyone else and cannot be altered because this would have a serious effect on overall collections.”

The Kingsway work is being done to allow for the height of the carriageway to be raised — work impossible to do while the road is open.

Raising the height of the road is part of a 32-week programme of works to transform the double roundabout at the junction of Forfar Road and the Kingsway into a traffic light-controlled system.

The upgrade is needed because of the opening of the new Morrisons supermarket.

Malcolm Construction Services project director Jim McAlister sympathised with local motorists, but said everything possible was being done to complete the work and ease traffic problems.

“Speed restrictions of 30 and 40mph have been in place for the safety of the operatives on site and will continue for the entire duration of the work.

“Night-time work will continue for another 15 nights, however roadworks and traffic restrictions will continue until September.

“We are currently working on the first junction and then turning the second into a light-controlled junction, which is very time consuming. But eventually motorists are going to get a far safer junction. Another huge advantage is that it will give people a proper pedestrian crossing at the Kingsway.”