Roadworks

[Brian Nazareth]

Why do roadworks take so bloody long? Is this a Sintellins thing or is it like that everywhere?

After taking about 6 months to seemingly just replace the kerbs and resurface the Sherdley Road/Peasley Cross Lane junction (seriously, has anything material actually changed?), creating huge queues and delays in all directions, they're now setting about destroying the Bull & Dog roundabout. It's apparently to make the roundabout more cyclist-friendly. It's chaos at peak times, especially in the morning.

The timeframe according to the signs there? 6 months.

I suspect the same team of a one-armed pensioner and teenage apprentice they used on the Peasley Cross junction are doing the work. With hand tools.

Meanwhile, queues on Clock Face Road, Chester Lane, Mill Lane will continue to be appalling.

[Bostik Bailey]

Don't know Eddie don't watch Newsnight.

[retro74]

Cycle friendly, that’s a laugh. I’m not a cyclist but this country doesn’t have the infrastructure to support cyclists and some weird bollards and a reconfigured roundabout isn’t going to change that

When all the train lines were closed years ago they should have tarmaced some of them for the sole use of walkers and cyclists and built around those to enable safe routes for cyclists. They are just dead spaces now, criss crossing the country

[Brian Nazareth]

Many more roads need works! Of the pothole-filling sort.

State of the roads has got terrible over the past few years. I guess that's another consequence of chronic underfunding.

[Brian Nazareth]

The new layout of the Bull & Dog roundabout is taking shape, and it looks an absolute dog's breakfast.

[Tomsepho]

The new layout of the Bull & Dog roundabout is taking shape, and it looks an absolute dog's breakfast.

It looks like a complete mess and a rather unnecessary one as well. Im not convinced its going to improve much.

[Div]

Is this a episode of Early Doors?

[Bostik Bailey]

Is this a episode of Early Doors?

No but I bet it helps out when they're busy

[volly]

Roadworks have a budget from the Rathaus (German for town hall, but more appropriate), if they don't spend the full amount in the given year, they have a cut next year.

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed and hence clamorous to be led to safety by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
H.L. Mencken

[Brian Nazareth]

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed and hence clamorous to be led to safety by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
H.L. Mencken

How very true.

I like Aneurin Bevan's take, which goes hand in hand with your quote above (as in, the Conservative Party core tactic is to keep the masses feeling menaced and angry by conjuring "an endless series of hobgoblins", from trade unions to asylum seekers to 'wokeists' to the EU):

“How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political power to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the twentieth century.”

[Brian Nazareth]

6 months on and they're still nowhere near finished.

To paraphrase Churchill...

"Never, in the field of civil engineering, has so little been done by so many"