{"id":8615,"date":"2012-03-21T21:42:14","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T21:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=8615"},"modified":"2012-03-21T21:42:14","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T21:42:14","slug":"ruddington-roadworks-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=8615","title":{"rendered":"Ruddington Roadworks 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Look at the bottom of this post for updates\u2026 the roadworks are moving around!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

\"MoreI\u2019ve written about this before, but the Kirk Lane\/Flawforth Lane junction with the A60 seems to have some sort of cosmic significance as far as major roadworks go.<\/p>\n

This time, though, it\u2019s not the gas but the drains they\u2019re fixing.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know if it was planned (there were no signs warning of major delays, so I guess it is an emergency repair), but it certainly isn\u2019t very well organised.<\/p>\n

There are two-way temporary lights about 100m from the set at the junction. I was down there tonight and turning right out of Kirk Lane is almost impossible during rush hour, because the temporary set is not synchronised in any way with the main junction. You end up stuck in the middle with nowhere to go.<\/p>\n

On the one hand, at least they\u2019re working outside the period 10am-2pm (plus 2 hours in total for lunch, elevenses, dinner, tea, and so on) \u2013 the normal working hours of the British navvy. But on the other, they\u2019ve already been doing this for several days and it looks like a big job.<\/p>\n

Avoid the A60. It\u2019s incompetent chaos yet again, no doubt authorised by one of the Nottingham councils (city or county).<\/p>\n

Update:<\/font><\/strong> As of 28 March<\/strong>, the drain roadworks are STILL causing chaos, and they\u2019re STILL not working nights or weekends to fix it quickly. And now \u2013 to make matters worse \u2013 Severn Trent have got the bloody road up with temporary lights less than a mile away near Bradmore.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/font><\/strong> They all seem to have been completed now (as of 2 April<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

Update:<\/font><\/strong> There are now TWO sets of works (as of 21 May<\/strong>) about 200m apart in Bunny on the A60. There is about a day\u2019s work, which will obviously take much longer because 90% of the activity seems to involve sitting on their arses on the adjacent bench making calls on their mobiles.<\/p>\n

These two are causing chaos during evening rush hour (I dread to think what it\u2019s like coming into<\/strong> Nottingham in the mornings).<\/p>\n

You know who is to blame – the idiots who sanction these works, then allow the contractors to do sod all for three weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Look at the bottom of this post for updates\u2026 the roadworks are moving around! I\u2019ve written about this before, but the Kirk Lane\/Flawforth Lane junction with the A60 seems to have some sort of cosmic significance as far as major roadworks go. This time, though, it\u2019s not the gas but the drains they\u2019re fixing. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[80,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-roadworks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t