Digging up the town
Well as the saying goes if you're going to make life a misery make it a big misery or if you're going to dig up part of the town then you might as well dig up the lot. The lights on Worcester Road haven't been too bad; the timing doesn't allow enough traffic through to feedback, but does allow enough so you don't feel frustrated.
Don's pointed out the lights in Lickhill Road, and I see this morning that the right-hand lane of Gilgal has been blocked off; no wait the top one-third of Gilgal has been blocked off on the right, the remaining two-thirds have been blocked off on the left.
[Additional - Re reading this I spotted that I didn't mention that the Gilgal chicane vanished the next day; either they finished real quick, they they got the wrong day, or they were meant to do something and couldn't. The last two options being the most worrying]
I'm just waiting for York Street or High Street (or perhaps both) to get the same treatment. Hopefully just before they start something on the bridge. Hey folks just avoid our town altogether for the next couple of months.
And just out of pure curiosity has anyone seen anybody working on Salford House on Bridge Street since they put the scaffolding up in the middle of August?
4 comments:
Just to continue with your current theme on the local roadworks.
1. New hole appeared today on Lickhill Road for Severn Trent.
2. Hole on Lower Lickhill Road still leaking but now is covered with a heavy metal plate.
3. The chicane on Gilgal for the e-on electicity roadworks is weird.
4. Severn Trent are still digging up Wilden Lane.
5. Very heavy compressed air sounds heard this morning from the Bridge road works.
6. Severn Trent have yet to start digging up Bridge Street. Is that to be followed by a six week re-surfacing closure of the road or are they to carry out their work during the closure?
Thanks Don, and would you look at that your no. 3 the Gilgal chicane has vanished. What the...? Seems like they couldn't start the work so they've taken it down, which is nice.
No. 6 is a god only knows; seriously I've found out roughly what they're doing and that they'll be a couple of weekend closures, but nobody has mentioned STW officially.
There was a rumour that they were going to only put down a temporary surface then STW were going to dig it up before they then put down the final surface
I'm concerned at the effect on local businesses of the planned "enhancement works" on Bridge St coming so soon after the work on the bridge. What do you Stourport guys think?
Hey Fran oo your first comment I believe.
I've heard some rumblings of discontent, but in the same breath talk that the street really needs surfacing so what can you do?
Off/on-topic the lack of parking on Bridge Street is a nuisance, people who park in High Street tend to stay at that end of town; people parking at the fair or on the riverside stay down there and there's poor old Bridge Street stuck in the middle. May be why the market failed.
Hopefully this piazza/basin link will draw in pedestrians when it gets built, the new restaurant is a little more ambivalent (more people in the evening when everyone else is closed perhaps?). The old indoor market is still an eye-sore, but I know the saga concerning that.
A good deal of grumbling is lack of knowledge and WCC sticking in a notice for a month of closures didn't help in calming things down.
On that note I spotted the blip in the Shuttle from Thursday (and on the WFDC site) giving some information about what's going on, but it's still too little and too late.
I mean we seem to have this 'official' Stourport site so why isn't that being used to disseminate info and allow feedback? Just a section on this is what we're looking at doing, please comment; followed by this is what we're doing.
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