SHOPPERS at a Blackburn supermarket faced lengthy queues and were left frustrated by a new car park traffic layout.

And now some regulars have vowed to take their custom elsewhere until a better system, or the original one, is implemented.

Customers at Asda, Grimshaw Park, Blackburn, must turn right at the roundabout from Park Road then join a one way system around the car park's parking spaces.

Motorists are forced to drive along the front of the store, then parallel to the embankment and behind the petrol station before rejoining the roundabout to turn left and leave the store.

Before the change, due to temporary road works in the area, road users were able to join the entrance and exit roundabout from most directions.

Tracy Jones, 43, of Somerset Avenue, Darwen, joined the queue at 2.45pm on Wednesday and said she had moved 10 feet in 25 minutes.

She said: "They kept letting people into the car park to join the queue but there's no way out once you're in it, you have to go round.

"Some people were even driving through the petrol station even though they were not buying petrol to get through the queues faster."

One motorist said she was disgusted by Tuesday's queues. Rosemary Finn, 75, of Hamilton Street, Blackburn, said she joined the exit queue at 5pm and they left the queue 55 minutes later.

She said: "It is disgusting. I will not be shopping in Asda again whilst this upheaval is going on.

"Another car user found herself stuck in queues at 12.30am on Tuesday when she nipped into the store to buy some potatoes.

Jackie Boardman, 57, of Longshaw Lane, Infirmary, said: "They could have done it a different way.

"I had to drive along this new system before I could even turn to find a parking space."

A spokesman for Asda said: "Customers should be assured that the store is trading as normal and extra colleagues have been drafted in to assist in the car park which seems to have eased the situation.

"Asda has had to change the car park set up to help ease the flow of traffic as a result of road works."