[Travel] Never ending roadworks

[Cheshire Cat]

I always use the M40 toll road. It is always worth the cost to avoid the misery blot that is Birmingham.

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

Ive done the Sussex to Telford run for 22 years now.

I’ve got this stuck in my head now to the tune of ‘Withdean to Wembley/Rotterdam”

I’m not even pissed

 

[Driver8]

As a regular user of the Motorways between home and the Amex (M6,M5,M40,M25,M23) it’s usually plain sailing other than the M25 around the M3 turn off going and Heathrow coming home. Unfortunately there isn’t an alternative to using the M25 otherwise I would.

 

[Weststander]

That Rottingdean crossroads is gonna be a laugh tomorrow

Did they deliberately pick the school holidays so the carnage would be less?

 

[scooter1]

Apparently Old Shoreham Rd will be closed westbound from tomorrow for 4 days for resurfacing, but where the signs are placed is new already. Does anyone actually know which bit will be closed?

 

[Anger]

I opened this thread expecting it to be about the long-awaited follow-up single by Limahl

Ah…

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

Apparently Old Shoreham Rd will be closed westbound from tomorrow for 4 days for resurfacing, but where the signs are placed is new already. Does anyone actually know which bit will be closed?

Looking at the one network website, it is only showing lane closures between West Hove and Southwick.

 

[Surf's Up]

Drove from Brighton to Tenterden, Ashford and back via Rye and Hastings over the weekend - every, and I mean every, road was riddled with potholes with drivers swerving all over the road to dodge them - f***ing Tories!!

 

[pwlr1966]

Please come to Southwick, Southern Water F£@%cup means, if you want to cross The Green to go to Southwick Square you need to take a 2 mile detour or sit in unnecessary "temporary" traffic lights for 20 minutes to make a 2 minute journey. WTF

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

I always use the M40 toll road. It is always worth the cost to avoid the misery blot that is Birmingham.

Does that connect to the M6 toll road somewhere, or the M42?
#newoneonme

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Does that connect to the M6 toll road somewhere, or the M42?
#newoneonme

I tend to get lost around Birmingham every time - can't imagine why.

 

[studio150]

And the next question, when was the last time you saw anyone working on these roadworks.

 

[Leekbrookgull]

Each to their own on this but when travelling from north Staffordshire to Sx and return tend to leave at 9pm and arrive at around 1-1-30 am both ways mileage is about 240 and so few HGV/coach traffic, suits us.

 

[Machiavelli]

It's not as if there's roadworks everywhere. Lots of roads have potholes instead

I opened up this thread and wondered why everyone wasn't getting excited about the delayed gratification of pothole-free roads courtesy of never-ending roadworks.

 

[Sirnormangall]

That Rottingdean crossroads is gonna be a laugh tomorrow

And if you get through there to head north up Falmer Road you’ll be held up by the “pavement “ works at Longhill school - they’re not roadworks because they’re doing nothing to the road - they are digging up the pavement which seems to necessitate closing off one lane of the road, a road which has already had more than half a dozen other lane closures in the past 12 months. I wish I had the balls to complain to the workforce but I wouldn’t want to interrupt them while they’re looking at their phones.

 

[Weststander]

And if you get through there to head north up Falmer Road you’ll be held up by the “pavement “ works at Longhill school - they’re not roadworks because they’re doing nothing to the road - they are digging up the pavement which seems to necessitate closing off one lane of the road, a road which has already had more than half a dozen other lane closures in the past 12 months. I wish I had the balls to complain to the workforce but I wouldn’t want to interrupt them while they’re looking at their phones.

The Newhaven to Kingston road’s going to be rather busy.

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

Did they deliberately pick the school holidays so the carnage would be less?

Probably yes, it’ll still be shite for the regulars though. Personally I only need to get to the Marina so Beddingham isn’t an option but I can get the bus and subsequent bus lane.

 

[rippleman]

And if you get through there to head north up Falmer Road you’ll be held up by the “pavement “ works at Longhill school - they’re not roadworks because they’re doing nothing to the road - they are digging up the pavement which seems to necessitate closing off one lane of the road, a road which has already had more than half a dozen other lane closures in the past 12 months. I wish I had the balls to complain to the workforce but I wouldn’t want to interrupt them while they’re looking at their phones.

"Pavement works" at Worthing station causing carnage.

They are just re-laying the pavement (which was one of the better pavement surfaces in Worthing) and sticking in a few trees. The pavement closure has resulted in a pedestrian walkway but they still allow parking on south side of the road. Closed the "out of town" bus stop so all buses in both directions now stop outside the station. When a bus stops, no room for other vehicles to pass so a blue light ambulance was stuck in the queue behind a bus last Thursday.

The councils keep claiming to be skint. But not when it comes to pointless, cosmetic vanity projects it would appear.

 

[Solid at the back]

If you live in Peacehaven or Saltdean and need to use your car for work, your kind of screwed this week. Not only temp traffic lights at Rottingdean, some bright spark has decided to put some at Kwik Fit in Newhaven too

 

[Eric the meek]

Some years ago, I read that when you see an uptick in roadworks in March, it will be because councils want to spend their remaining budgets set aside for
roadworks, before the end of financial year*.

I don't know if the same applies to motorways and highways etc.

* pothole repairs are presumably not included in any planned or forecast expenditure and are therefore chucked over the fence into the next tax year.