Road closure past agreed date
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Bit of a random question. We had a local road closed for a 6 month period as part of a traffic calming scheme. All agreed by the relevant government / highways parties. It’s at 6 months on Friday and the road is still closed with no sign of it being scheduled to reopen. It’s causing gridlock in the local area and has just moved the problem. Is there anything I can challenge to get it opened next week if it’s still shut?
Backtobasics2 said:
Bit of a random question. We had a local road closed for a 6 month period as part of a traffic calming scheme. All agreed by the relevant government / highways parties. It’s at 6 months on Friday and the road is still closed with no sign of it being scheduled to reopen. It’s causing gridlock in the local area and has just moved the problem. Is there anything I can challenge to get it opened next week if it’s still shut?
Speak to Parish council?Drumroll said:
ChevronB19 said:
Speak to Parish council?
Parish Councils have no responsibility for Highways. Drumroll said:
ChevronB19 said:
Speak to Parish council?
Parish Councils have no responsibility for Highways. Rushjob said:
Drumroll said:
ChevronB19 said:
Speak to Parish council?
Parish Councils have no responsibility for Highways. Edge case but worth trying to find out if the reason it is still closed is the original reason it was closed for. I live in a village with three main access roads - one had a well publicised closure properly notified, signs up, dates, hours, the lot. It was closed a day earlier than the notified date. The village Facebook group went in to meltdown, the Karen's demanded to know which incompetent manager they needed to speak to because the school run was now 10 minutes longer, the Parish Council were hounded, the full works. Turned out there was a gas leak and Cadent had shut the road due to an emergency nothing to do with the planned works.
ChevronB19 said:
Drumroll said:
ChevronB19 said:
Speak to Parish council?
Parish Councils have no responsibility for Highways. Where I used to live, Impington, near Cambridge, the contractors erected signs, cones went in etc etc, notification was for 25 weeks work to install traffic calming measures on a mile of minor road that ran parallel to a main road, and near to an industrial estate.
All agreed that "something needed to be done". The Japanese would have done it during a single night.
It turned out that what needed to be done was the guy spending our money to pay for 25 weeks work needed to be fired.
The contractors came in on day 1, did a week's work (well, 4.5 days, the Great British road workman knocks off at 12 on a Friday).
Nothing more happened for 22 weeks (apart from a lot of frustration, and cones ending up on top of traffic lights).
Contractors came back on the Monday of week 24, and the job was all finished by the Thursday of week 25.
I blame it on the demise of the UK brewing industry.
The Highways departments at councils clearly have nowhere to hold their organisational training sessions.
All agreed that "something needed to be done". The Japanese would have done it during a single night.
It turned out that what needed to be done was the guy spending our money to pay for 25 weeks work needed to be fired.
The contractors came in on day 1, did a week's work (well, 4.5 days, the Great British road workman knocks off at 12 on a Friday).
Nothing more happened for 22 weeks (apart from a lot of frustration, and cones ending up on top of traffic lights).
Contractors came back on the Monday of week 24, and the job was all finished by the Thursday of week 25.
I blame it on the demise of the UK brewing industry.
The Highways departments at councils clearly have nowhere to hold their organisational training sessions.
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