Just Stourport things

I was a little concerned driving back through town last night, York Street had a big maintenance wagon loaded with signs parked on it including traffic light notices. Of course as has been promised we're not getting any more disruptions at Bridge Street oh no indeedy these disruptions will in fact be on the corner of New Street and um Bridge Street. Central Networks 30/6 to 3/7. Checking through the list it also appears Severn Trent will have some lights up in Wilden Lane just for 3/7. I found these of course using the weekly Excel spreadsheet that Worcester County Council provide, their 'live' web search didn't bring up anything of use.

A minor delay coming through town this morning. A bus had parked quite inconsiderately in the High Street bus-stop; as I've mentioned multiple times the buses don't fit and thus jut out into the main road. Hey that doesn't matter we've still got one and three-quarters of a lane left... except another bus had turned up and had to park behind the bus-stop. Hey that doesn't matter we've still got one lane left... at which point the eye is drawn to the large delivery wagon parked opposite the bus-stop. You know parked at 8:40am across those No Loading stripes next to the notice telling them there's no loading between 8:00am and 9:00am.

Now of course the bus not in the bus-stop can't get past the one in the bus-stop (because it juts out) and no other traffic can get between the gap of the road-parked bus and the delivery van; so we all have to wait until either the bus-stop bus or the delivery van moves because the powers that be couldn't even build a bloody bus-stop properly and of course none of these vaunted traffic wardens are in sight.

Ah well it did give me time to admire the new directional signs that have been mounted on the finger posts... no I tell a lie none of them have any signs yet. I did get to admire the foreshadowing of the broken tar spreading across the icing sugar pavement on the corner of New Street and Bridge Street - you know, where they've got the road works.

[sigh] The water puddle at the OGL island is still there, and yet again I can understand why they don't want to disrupt traffic again at this busy junction while other work is going on, just grates that of all the work that this company has done in the town so much is sub-par (They're the ones who put in the jutting up plate in Mitton Street after they'd dug it up for the second time to fix a leak, they're also the ones who put down the mismatched bricks in High Street)

Now for an amendment, the tire tracks that now surround the lane leading to Thomas Vale may be caused by the road surface itself, in this hot weather there's a distinct smell that I last remember from the bridge resurfacing. I also note that cars turning into the lane are solving the narrowness problem by driving over the new pavement. I expect to hear a call for tank buster kerbs to be fitted rather than a call to discover whoever approved this width in the first place.