Recent road works

[Mice!]

So how many areas have been getting work done since the election?

It can't be coincidence that after let's say years of nothing getting fixed, pot holes everywhere and entire stretches of road breaking up there's suddenly new tarmac getting put down, I'm regularly around Lancashire and Cumbria and seeing lots of resurfacing going on ( some very baddly)

Is the Civil service responsible for the up keep of our roads/ highways??

Have they deliberately been doing nothing and getting away with it to undermine the Tories.

 

[Mr.C]

Yes I think you've hit the nail on the head. The lefty woke liberati civil service have been deliberately not repairing the roads in order to make the torries look like a bunch of incompetent fools who couldn't find their **** with both hands. 

Give me strength..... 

Edited July 28 by Mr.C

[dainty duck]

Labor Council in Chesterfield , they started filling in the potholes and repairing the surfaces around the start off the election campaign , god only knows how many cars have been damaged by this ploy ! wheel trims all over the place , think you are right in your thinking Mice !

[Bigbob]

They are fitting traffic light to a major roundabout here and all the comments says it unnecessary and will take 6 months queues at each junction and traffic sitting for 20/30 a light change , They are a Glasgow company so off for the fair fortnight so what does the council do start work on all the other roads all routes to the city centre are snarled up and shops are talking about letting staff go as its affecting business 

[Mice!]

20 minutes ago, Bigbob said:

sitting for 20/30 a light change

Is that minutes??

On a travel group I'm on someone said it took them over an hour to go 1.5 miles today because of temporary lights set up wrong, but there could have been a knock on effect from the M6 being shut.

Given how important travel is these days, temporary lights and roadworks are a joke, they should be set up proper and be fit for purpose. 

[Gordon R]

Roads are the responsibility of the County Councils. I think you have a valid point about temporary traffic lights. They inevitably have them on for far longer than is necessary and cause chaos.

[shaun4860]

It’s more a carry over from the end of the tax year.

Councils trying to spend their surplus knowing that if they don’t it will get taken off them.

Happens every year 

[Mice!]

8 hours ago, shaun4860 said:

It’s more a carry over from the end of the tax year.

Councils trying to spend their surplus knowing that if they don’t it will get taken off them.

Happens every year 

This usually happens in the run up to April, spending before they lose the money,  can't recall seeing it in July and into August?

[Bigbob]

13 hours ago, Mice! said:

Is that minutes??

On a travel group I'm on someone said it took them over an hour to go 1.5 miles today because of temporary lights set up wrong, but there could have been a knock on effect from the M6 being shut.

Given how important travel is these days, temporary lights and roadworks are a joke, they should be set up proper and be fit for purpose. 

Yes its 20/30 minutes its a major roundabout into the city centre under a viaduct , the first week they closed off one entrance and got cars to exit on it after a load of accidents they changed it . I am lucky i have a bus pass so i dont need to drive in it but after the first week of buses running slow they changed the route and cancelled every second bus . a lot of folk wrote to there MP 

[Mice!]

2 minutes ago, Bigbob said:

Yes its 20/30 minutes its a major roundabout into the city centre under a viaduct , the first week they closed off one entrance and got cars to exit on it after a load of accidents they changed it . I am lucky i have a bus pass so i dont need to drive in it but after the first week of buses running slow they changed the route and cancelled every second bus . a lot of folk wrote to there MP 

It's a shambles really and it's the same everywhere. 

[Bigbob]

Yes there calls for the city planner who passed the plans for this to be sacked , they did the same at a other roundabout it was horrendous at peak time them over ran and there where faults on it for months 

[Poor Shot]

I've no experience of highways and local gov level spending but I do work with (not for, don't tar me with that brush) a civil service dept. 

Some of our project spending and contract awards where ministerial approval was required were paused on the dissolvement of parliament and are now starting to proceed again with the appointment of a new government and relevant ministers. 

If local gov contract award and capital expenditure is dependent on ministerial approval then it is possible that a lot of planned works or the appointment of a highways maintenance and construction contract was pending then it may be the case that the increased level of works due to the general election and resultant pause are now more visible as the backlog is being worked on as well as current scheduled works. It's very unlikely that low level spending would be subject to ministerial approval but major infrastructure and high level spending could possibly be which may include an area wide improvement plan spanning many millions of pounds.  

I can't say that I've noticed an increase in road works local to myself but then again, even a large increase on bog all would go unnoticed. 

Edited July 29 by Poor Shot

[janner]

Many of our urban motorways and bypasses were built in the late 60's and early 70's,

The design of many intersections means they have now reached the end of their operational life,

Lack of maintainence over the years has allowed water into the joints and urgent action is required,

The westway into london is to be completely closed shortly whilst major works are undertaken, the Hammersmith flyover was closed a few years back whist emergency repairs were carried out,

these repairs were a stop gap measure and demolition of the whole structure was being flouted,

The surrounding local roads of these city serving motorways are mostly 20mph and designed to be traffic unfriendly nowadays,

These roads are where the closed motorway traffic will be diverted through,

There has not been much in the news about this but i would not like to be either footing the bill, driving in a city over the next decade or even living in a now quiet street close to a flyover,

 

Edited July 30 by janner

[Mice!]

7 hours ago, janner said:

Many of our urban motorways and bypasses were built in the late 60's and early 70's,

The design of many intersections means they have now reached the end of their operational life,

Driving round a section of the M25 today and it was terrible,  all concrete section and certainly in need of being replaced,  but I can well imagine the carnage that would cause.