M62 Roadworks !

[Martin_Hx]

Thoughts on this ? "variable mandatory speed limits"

http://www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/news/local/huge_pr...

"Huge programme to ease congestion on M62 underway

WORK starts this month on a £150 million programme to cut congestion on the M62 between Brighouse and Leeds.


And, it could be 2014 before completion of what is the first managed motorway scheme in Yorkshire. It covers the 15.5 mile stretch between J25 (Brighouse) and J30 (Rothwell).

Mobilisation work on the M62 starts on Monday, September 26 and that will include traffic management.

The hard shoulder will be closed between J27 (Gildersome) and J28 (Tingley) but three lanes will be kept in both directions.

A 50mph speed limit – monitored by speed cameras – will be enforced.

Work is expected to start in full next month and is due for completion in 2013-14.

Once finished variable mandatory speed limits will be used and the hard shoulder will be permanently used as an extra traffic lane in both directions between J25 and 26 and westbound between J30 and 29.

The hard shoulder will be opened as an additional lane during busy periods in both directions between J26 and 28 and eastbound between J29 and 30 – the M62 is already four lanes in both directions between J28 and J29.

Highways Agency project manager David Pilsworth said: “This scheme will provide much needed additional capacity on the M62. Experience elsewhere shows managed motorways deliver significant safety benefits and more reliable journey times.”

[PinkFatBunny]

2 years of roadworks - after we've only just got the motorway back after fitting those new barriers.

What fun that is going to be in a morning.

[Deva Link]

Martin_Hx said:

Thoughts on this ? "variable mandatory speed limits"

I think, despite the doubters, it works pretty well on the M42.

[Guiseley]

Excellent (not) - looks like I'm continuing to commute by bike for another 3 years then, but then at least we might get a motorway and not a car park during rush hour. (I'll wave as I filter past if you like!!)

[bobda]

Deva Link said:

I think, despite the doubters, it works pretty well on the M42.

Yep. If it's the same gantry based system combined with occasional allowed use of the hard shoulder then it does seem to work. Hopefully they don't fit speed cameras to every gantry as well, though.

[BlueMR2]

The number of accidents on the m62 is insane.

This will do nothing at all.

It wont slow anyone down (well all the road works will, maybe that's why they are constantly doing something there) it will just piss everyone off even more and the majority of drivers will just speed up before and after the roadworks to make up time, making it an even more dangerous stretch of road.

Shame they can't spend the money on something useful like resurfacing all the crap roads round here properly so they last longer than a couple of months.

[skip_1]

The poles for some of the average speed cams have gone up today, with more going up this week.

I think the managed motorways work quiet well, but it's going to be hell for my commute while they widen and install (Bradford to Castleford)

[Ironballs]

Ah crap, more roadworks. Well I used to travel on the M42 a lot and it does make it better, but what is really needed is an extra lane or 2 between 26 and 27.

That and mandatory roadside execution of rubberneckers. I think that's fair

[C3BER]

I hate the M42 I bloody hate it. It's the most ugliest stretch of motorway by far.

Tip for avoiding the speed cameras on the 42:

If there on the opposite gantry, then there not on yours.

[Guiseley]

Ironballs said:

That and mandatory roadside execution of rubberneckers. I think that's fair

[Paul O]

The M62 is awful and it sounds like the M62 will be a no-go area from now until 2014.

But something needs to be done, so anything they can do to help conjestion can only be a good thing. Plus having another permanent 15 mile road-work queue will surely help to stop the rediculous amount of accidents on this tarmac hell - as nothing will be moving above 10mph for the next 3 years.

Hopefully the commute will be better in 3 years time! Better late than never (why couldn't they sort this when they had the road up for the barriers?).

[Zad]

Well that will be "interesting". For most of the past 10-15 years, the area around the M1/M62 intersection seems to have had roadworks of one type or another. About 7-8 years ago they resurfaced it and more or less overnight it went from not being audible where we are (a couple of miles from the M62) to sounding like Rolls Royce had installed a jet engine test cell just over the hill.