Stafford Western Access Route.

Len's Lens

Len's Lens

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airbusA346 said:
Yes the section of road off Foregate Street is two lanes. The right lane merges into the left lane after the lights on the new section of road.



They need to sort out the crossing on Foregate Street in front of Bamboo Garden. The damn thing self cancels part way through the light sequence, and can take 2-3 attempts to get the green light to cross.
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Don't most pedestrians press the button and immediately cross the road anyway, inadvertently holding up the traffic 40 seconds later? At least they cancel the request to cross - which is unlike most puffin crossings when the pedestrian has already crossed the road, without waiting for the green man.
 
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gilesjuk

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I went down these new roads today. Did the development get sponsored by Telford? only that's the only destination listed on the signs. What about Gnosall, Newport etc?
 
c0tt0nt0p

c0tt0nt0p

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gilesjuk said:
I went down these new roads today. Did the development get sponsored by Telford? only that's the only destination listed on the signs. What about Gnosall, Newport etc?
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To be fair the existing signs in town list Telford...
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In the same way the A449 doesn't list Penkridge...
 
gilbert grape

gilbert grape

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With the current and predicted weather I reckon we’ll see what affect this structure has on flow and flooding. Sow was rising earlier and parts of the marshes are proper soggy. With not one dry day forecast for the next 10 we shall see!
 
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Gramaisc

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kyoto49 said:
Why is it so poorly tarmaced, the manholes are nowhere near flush with the surface of the road, noticed when heading from Sainsburys to Halfords. Very shoddy :(
Glam said:
It's a lovely drive, if you avoid the manholes.
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I am not in the UK.

'My' road here has just been rebuilt, after some drainage work. The old road was removed utterly and a new road brought in.

Recognising that the surface level of new tarmac is hard to judge accurately, the technique is generally that The Lads will come back and reset the ironwork to be flush to the new surface, thus greatly reducing the impact loads from traffic.

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It's hardly rocket science...
 
Studio Tan

Studio Tan

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- maybe it IS rocket science - those strange markings around the grid look similar to the kind of notations seen on the control panel of an alien spacecraft.
 
BobClay

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I think I can refute that. It doesn't look like the inside of any spacecraft I was ever abducted to on my way home from the pub. However, they do look like ancient hieroglyphics formed into a matrix equation that explains how to get the worm out of a wormhole.
 
Gramaisc

Gramaisc

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Studio Tan said:
- maybe it IS rocket science - those strange markings around the grid look similar to the kind of notations seen on the control panel of an alien spacecraft.
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You could be right - this enigmatic inscription appeared after a bit of ductwork at the nearby station.

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BobClay

BobClay

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I've examined that carefully and I think the answer is 42. However, I did copy that from 'somebody else.'

There are some out there who think it's 72, we call them base 13 blasphemers. :eek:
 
Raven

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Gramaisc said:
I am not in the UK.

'My' road here has just been rebuilt, after some drainage work. The old road was removed utterly and a new road brought in.

Recognising that the surface level of new tarmac is hard to judge accurately, the technique is generally that The Lads will come back and reset the ironwork to be flush to the new surface, thus greatly reducing the impact loads from traffic.

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It's hardly rocket science...
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Looks to be a real neat solution, shame that the system is not used here as those drain covers on the new road will not last the winter before remedial work is needed next year. (Time will tell)
 
BobClay

BobClay

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The link doesn't appear to work for me ... but the pix is really interesting. This screenshot from Google Earth dated June 2018 makes you think that the weather gods (orrible bastards who delight in chaos,) are all in favour of a Turner Sky, or they are laughing mightily at a human f*ckup.
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The Hawk

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One answer could be to make the first 10 metres of Halfords/MFC road (Greyfriars Place) 'one way' (away from the new junction). If no traffic was coming out of that road, onto the new junction, it would solve most of the problems with the new junction.
 
proactive

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The Hawk said:
One answer could be to make the first 10 metres of Halfords/MFC road (Greyfriars Place) 'one way' (away from the new junction). If no traffic was coming out of that road, onto the new junction, it would solve most of the problems with the new junction.
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Surely the easiest way would be to replace the traffic lights with a roundabout. There's plenty of space to do it.
 
proactive

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It always 'amazes' me how when the traffic lights pack up at the Lichfield Road/Riverway junction (which is reasonably often), traffic manages to flow so much better than when the lights work. Who'd have thought...
 
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