Stafford Western Access Route.

The Hawk

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Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grubb....*cough*
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Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
"IF" is the biggest word around, but "IF" a proper ring road had been built around the town many years ago, there may have been less need for this sort of thing (the WAR) but we are now where we are.
Calm down, dear!

It's only eighty years since the ring road was started, people just need to have a little patience...
 

SC1988

A few posts under my belt
It has been understood for at least the last 20 years that pretty much all that happens if you build roads is that the demand will increase to fill them.

You don't decrease demand for road space by creating more of it, you make more demand, and more, and more...

Fighting for peace is like f**cking for virginity.

If this is true lets build more roads into the town centre!
 
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Steve_b

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Indeed. To reduce traffic volume we need to look at reducing car numbers. Build roads and they shall come.
Build houses and they will come - extra traffic and all. Then let's build a road to take the traffic! WAR - ASSESS, not bypass, not distribution, but ASSESS. So I guess we all know the real reason for this road!
 

Withnail

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That's exactly what you said, scroll up
What is it that you want?

Do you imagine that more traffic on more routes into the Town Centre means they'll all stay there and be happy shoppers?

Or do you think that more roads in to Town will mean more cars will occupy the capacity on their way to somewhere else?

And do you think that 'capacity' is one of those words that sounds a bit silly the more you say it?

What's your farking point?
 

joshua

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Message received today, thought you might be interested. Stafford Western Access Route Scheme Update July 2019
Progress so far;
▪ Completing Contract documentation for signing.
▪ The construction works between A34 Foregate Street/Madford Park and Martin Drive at Castlefields are planned to commence on 29th July 2019 with a construction period of approximately 113 weeks.
▪ Undertook Public Information event on 3rd June 2019 together with presentations to key stakeholders including Castletown Residents Association, Madford Retail Park, Sainsburys and Stafford Town Centre Partnership.
▪ Submit for discharge the remaining pre-commence planning conditions.
▪ Completed detailed design work for the provision of a temporary mini-roundabout on Doxey Road that will form an access to the car park at Sainsbury’s. Works are programmed to start on 3rd September 2019.
▪ Completed British Telecom diversion works to Castletown frontage along Doxey Road.
▪ Building Surveys; external and internal, at Castletown, Lidl and Ten Pin due to commence on 8th July 2019.
▪ Commenced trial hole investigation works along Doxey Road.
▪ Commenced the installation of Water Monitoring boreholes on Doxey Road Car Park and at the rear of Ten Pin.
▪ Refurbishment to existing cabling and ducting on Doxey Road Car Park to commence mid July 2019.
▪ Set up of main compound adjacent St. Gobain, off Doxey Road to commence mid July 2019.
▪ Mobilisation of main contract works.
Key milestones include;
*Dates are in accordance with current programme which could be subject to change.
Contract Award 24/04/2019
Commence activities on Site 29/07/2019
Drainage and preparation work between Lidl and Ten Pin
Early August 2019
Temporary access to Doxey Road Car Park (subject to approval)
Early September 2019
Commence Bored Displacement Piling (BDP) Castletown
Late August 2019
Commence Driven Piling at Doxey Road Car Park
Mid September 2019
Commence Bored Displacement Piling (BDP) Ten Pin & Lidl
Mid November 2019
Piling Operations to last approximately 7 months
Roadworks at Doxey Road roundabout
Early September 2019
Roadworks between Doxey Road Bridge and Timberfields
Early December 2019
Demolition at St. Gobain
Mid October 2019
Roadworks at Rose Hill / Martin Drive Roundabout
Late November 2019
Roadworks between Timberfields and Doxey Road roundabout
Early February 2020
Doxey Road Car Park Viaduct Beam Installation
Late February 2020
Roadworks to Madford Retail Park
September 2020
River Sow Bridge Beam Installation
Early September 2020
Activity
Date *
Works at Sainsbury Car Park North (subject to approval with SBC)
Early February 2021
Doxey Road Railway Bridge Closure
Early April 2021
Scheme Complete
September 2021
Landscaping
Late October 2021
Works at Madford Retail Park (subject to approval with Aviva)
Lidl Car Park
Early November 2020
Ten Pin Car Park
Late November 2020
Curry’s/PC World Car Park
Late March 2021
What we are doing next;
▪ Continue with regular 1-2-1 discussions with directly affected frontages.
▪ Consultation for the proposed One Way and No Right Turn Traffic Regulation Orders to Doxey Road Access Road and Castletown frontages.
 

joshua

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All of those who were are at the start, I presume - they won't be able to get out.
And when the rescue parties got through, all they found was the sun-bleached bones of the poor folk who had been trapped in this hellhole, but the worst of it all was the tooth marks on the bones, " in the last days they had been reduced to eating each other to survive"
 

Andreas Rex

Banned for smiling
Piling work to last approx 7 months.

Good luck to those who have to work nights...

They've stated that work will only be done between 8am-6pm (Mon-Fri), 8am-12pm (Sat), and nothing on Sundays. I'll be very grateful if they stick to that...but my home is my workplace too, and those are my work hours... :ohno:
 

Pooryorick

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They've stated that work will only be done between 8am-6pm (Mon-Fri), 8am-12pm (Sat), and nothing on Sundays. I'll be very grateful if they stick to that...but my home is my workplace too, and those are my work hours... :ohno:

Unfortunately, the council doesn't have a clock, so expect 24hr working.
 

BobClay

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So, the 'Bored Displacement Pilers' are moving in on us 'Hole Investigators.'

There will be blood. :heyhey::buddy:
 
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