Stafford Traffic.

Gramaisc

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It is quite difficult to drive at 20mph though. But I think I'd be able to manage it.
They do occasionally enforce the 30kph zone along the Quays in Dublin, but I've never heard of anybody getting a ticket for exceeding a 20mph here.

Well, the M6 has just closed Northbound 9.35pm ish - a crash apparently. So let's test your theory!
I've just been to Wolverhampton Road and it seemed quieter than usual.
 

Noah

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Yellow warning signs of road works about to happen on the A449 railway bridge at Mosspit and on the A34 at Brocton. Couldn't read the details on them though.
 

Lucy

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Roadworks.org suggests Moss Pit railway bridge works will only be done on Saturday nights.
 

Jonah

Spouting nonsense since the day I learned to talk
Roadworks summary (from memory)

Cannock Road by old Police HQ - not a clue how long, depends on how long the builders can make it last.
Baswich Lane railway bridge (Saturday from 1pm to Monday 5am) for next 7 weekends.
Silkmore Lane - about 3-4 weeks left I think.
Moss Pit railway bridge - who knows how long.
Stone Road/Eccleshall Road island - 10 weeks of joy.
Beaconside - on/off relationship with traffic lights, could last forever.

Feel free to add those I have undoubtedly blanked out from my mind.
 

staffordjas

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Roadworks summary (from memory)

Cannock Road by old Police HQ - not a clue how long, depends on how long the builders can make it last.

Thought about this earlier whilst walking past there to B&Q and back . Both times there wasn't anyone working on the 'roadworks' bit. Only workman in sight was the bloke sitting in the traffic control van.
 
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kyoto49

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Spoke to my councillor about the situation down my road. I emailed and he rang me back! Seems a decent fellow for a Conservative

He's speaking to highways to see what can be done! I live in hope!
 

Tilly

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Spoke to my councillor about the situation down my road. I emailed and he rang me back! Seems a decent fellow for a Conservative

He's speaking to highways to see what can be done! I live in hope!


Decent and Conservative ? Why not add naive and be done
 

joshua

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M6 stretch to shut for 18 hours both ways as bridge is dismantled
By Jordan Reynolds | Stafford | Transport | Published: 3 hours ago | Last Updated: 1 hour ago

A stretch of the M6 will be closed in both directions for 18 hours next month while a 140-ton bridge is dismantled.

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Burton Bank Footbridge. Photo: Highways England
Drivers will face diversions while the work takes place between junctions 13 and 14 near Stafford to remove the Burton Bank Footbridge.

Highways England will carry out the work over the weekend of March 23 and 24.

Due to the curved shape of the footbridge, which was built in the early 1960s, there is not enough headroom for HGVs to travel along the new lane that will be replacing the hard shoulder.

Interactive map of the diversion:
The bridge is too low for the required safety clearance when the hard shoulder becomes a new running lane.

The footbridge is nearly 200ft in length and weighs around 140 tons. In total it contains enough concrete to fill around 20 tipper trucks.

It is the second bridge to be removed as part of work to upgrade the motorway between Junction 13 for Stafford and Junction 15 for Stoke-on-Trent after Creswell Home Farm bridge, just north of Junction 14, was demolished last year.

The motorway closure will start on March 23 with significant lane restrictions from 5pm, leading into a full closure by 8pm. Drivers are warned to expect delays from 5pm. The motorway will reopen on March 24 as soon as work allows.

Extra travel time
Highways England smart motorways project sponsor, Peter Smith, said: “Demolishing an arched bridge is a very complex job and to do it safely we need to use both carriageways of the motorway, which means it will be closed for up to 18 hours.

"We’ll be doing all we can to minimise disruption in Stafford and the surrounding area and I’d like to thank motorists, businesses and residents in advance for their patience.


"I’d also urge anyone wanting to use the M6 in that area on March 23 and 24 to plan an alternative route to avoid congestion in the area. Please also allow extra travel time and fuel for your journey.”

While the work takes place, traffic will be diverted off the M6 between Junctions 13 and 14 and will use the A449 and A34 as the diversion route. This route has been agreed with local authority partners and will be kept clear of other works during the demolition.

Drivers have been warned to expect delays and urged to avoid the area if possible, allowing lots of extra time for essential journeys.


To reduce M6 traffic on the day, signs will alert motorists to the closure as far away as Dover and Carlisle. Motorists and hauliers travelling between the North West and the Midlands and South of England will be urged to avoid the area by using the M62 and M1.

Work began last year and the project is due to be completed by March 2022.

More information is available by visiting https://highwaysengland.co.uk/projects/m6-junction-13-to-junction-15-smart-motorway/
 

Len's Lens

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It is nigh-on impossible to join the McDonald's roundabout from Eccleshall Road due to the continuous stream of traffic going round the roundabout up the A34 due to Eccleshall Road being closed Northbound. Long delays were present. Noone actually bothers giving way to drivers wanting to enter the roundabout from Eccleshall road. It is the way the roadworks have been set up and will cause problems.
 

Carole

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It's bad enough that they cut through, but what galls me is the speed they think its acceptable to drive up a narrow residential road where the limit is 20mph and children play. How selfish are people ☹. If they drove considerately it would be

Spoke to my councillor about the situation down my road.

!

I know that you and I don’t get on, so hear me out.
I do have some sympathy to your predicament.
However, as annoying as it is for you, the cars that drive down your road are there legally.

Whether you like it or not, they are entitled to drive down “Your” road.
And it’s only for 11 weeks.
I don’t know how your local councillor can sort out that only residents can go through, and not allow everyone else who is legally entitled to go through a thoroughfare?

I do agree however that some drivers are idiots. People speeding through with no thought for others are idiots which is why I feel your ire.

However, while you are inconvenienced for 11 weeks by people driving down “your road”, please spare a thought for those who are inconvenienced on a regular basis, day in, day out, year in, year out by people either parking inconsiderately and/or illegally or by speeding through their town/area/ village.


I’d personally be filled with joy at an only having to put up with it for 11 weeks and then go back to some kind of car consideration utopia.
 
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