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Title: Strines Rd Works
Post by: gazwhite on March 25, 2014, 08:42:12 PM
Temp lights just after Mill Green... What's going on there?
Title: Re: Strines Rd Works
Post by: Lily on March 25, 2014, 08:46:58 PM
Temp road works!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.buxtonadvertiser.co.uk/news/local/residents-complain-as-disley-road-works-turn-one-1-6506412

Title: Re: Strines Rd Works
Post by: hollins on March 25, 2014, 09:15:15 PM
Temp road works!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.buxtonadvertiser.co.uk/news/local/residents-complain-as-disley-road-works-turn-one-1-6506412
Not only have these lights been there for a very long time (I'm sure that it's considerably more than a year) but the roadworks are very dangerous. The lights are regularly out of action and the plastic barriers diverting the footpath past them are often scattered across the highway. The debris is a major trip hazard in the dark to pedestrians.

This stretch of road is the responsibility of East Cheshire Highways and it doesn't take a structural engineer to see that it is subsiding into the river - just look at the cracks in the carriageway and footpath. If there is also a brittle cast-iron gas pipe under there as well then that's just adding to the hazard.
Title: Re: Strines Rd Works
Post by: Howard on March 26, 2014, 03:16:47 PM
Not only have these lights been there for a very long time (I'm sure that it's considerably more than a year) but the roadworks are very dangerous. The lights are regularly out of action and the plastic barriers diverting the footpath past them are often scattered across the highway. The debris is a major trip hazard in the dark to pedestrians.

The lights are out of action because they are left so long that it defaults to an emergency battery which sets both lights to red as a safety measure. The whole episode is quite disgraceful.
Title: Re: Strines Rd Works
Post by: gazwhite on March 26, 2014, 08:50:21 PM
Over a year now.

They are waiting for and doing research on the land to find the cause.

Telephone 0300 123 55 00
Title: Re: Strines Rd Works
Post by: hollins on September 24, 2015, 11:51:32 AM
Could this really be the end of this saga ... ?
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/relief-scepticism-two-year-roadworks-10119263 (http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/relief-scepticism-two-year-roadworks-10119263)