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Ms Morgan, the Plaid Cymru opposition leader on Rhondda Cynon Taf council, warned that could take significantly longer after Monday's closure."It'll be long and it's already often gridlocked so the concern is with the added traffic, tailbacks are expected to be worse," she said.

She said one woman in Treherbert hold told her the closure would turn her 10-minute commute to work "into an hour-long journey in each direction".Hospital patients and expectant parents on the south of the closure, have been warned the journey to their nearest hospital in Merthyr Tydfil will be longer.at Bridgend's Princess of Wales Hospital from September, Ms Morgan said many expectant mums from the upper Rhondda would be using thematernity unit at Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil.

"But they're concerned as the Rhigos road closure means their journeys to hospital will be longer and possibly more stressful," she added.For residents in Hirwaun, on the north of the closure, it is another traffic headache.

The village is on the western end of a four-year, £600m project to make the A465 a dual carriageway, meaning road works and contraflows.

Ms Morgan, who represents Hirwaun, Penderyn and Rhigos, said: "This will make it worse. Takeaway delivery drivers, taxis... you can't get them to come to Hirwaun because of the traffic chaos.Studies on pediatric cancer, Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease would be affected, he wrote.

"In recent weeks, the federal government has launched a broad attack on the critical funding partnerships that make this invaluable research possible," the school's lawsuit said.It said the withholding of federal funding violated Harvard's constitutional rights and was being used as "leverage to gain control of academic decisionmaking at Harvard".

The Trump administration has signalled that another $1bn of federal funding could be suspended. Harvard receives about $9bn in total annually, which is mostly spent on research.Harvard's tax exemption status and its ability to enroll international students could also be under threat.