Shanice Brake, 33, from Winterbourne, also got caught up in the traffic chaos with her commute to Cribbs Causeway taking two hours – more than six times the length it would normally be.
Working in healthcare, she said she had seen patients having to be turned away because they were so late for their appointments, with some even calling to say they were “stuck” on their way in.
Both she and Ms Butler expressed their “frustration” at how little work they could see being done along the closures, as well as their concerns that they had seen people carrying out illegal manoeuvres on the A-road.
“All I saw was a lot of colleagues on their phones or just sorting signs out, and you’re thinking ‘if this is going to take four weeks please let them be working 24/7 to fix this’.”