proactive
Enjoying a drop of red.
I admire your faith in their intelligence.
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Stafford Traffic.
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ATJ
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Have they reported it to the council? Can't fix what they don't know about.
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kyoto49
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And wasting time reporting pot holes for them to then routinely ignore for months and months and months isn't one of ours. There are some huge pot holes on the Beacnside road that have been there the whole summer, as you turn left at the lights from the Sandon Road. The ones outside the pharmacy on the Wolverhampton Road by the lights were there for years, massive craters, feck all was done. Even now its like the surface of the moon at those lights. I'm personally not prepared to tolerate utter shite service.
I first reported the potholes at the A51/A518 junction on the Weston side of the junction to highways over 4 years ago. I've reported them 3 times since. At some point about 18 months ago they threw a bit of tarmac into some of the holes but left the worst ones. They're still there & getting worse.
Cue
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The lights at Wolverhampton are horrendous, I’ve never seen a major road look that bad
Mudgie
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With funding cuts and the certain knowledge that it'd be damaged again within a few months our council might have decided not to replace it.
And not having one might teach motorists to drive a bit more carefully !
proactive
Enjoying a drop of red.
There's a decades long tradition of drivers being totally unable to cope with that bridge. It is wide enough for two cars to pass but not a car and Transit or other car pulling a trailer.
It all works so much better now the temp traffic lights are there. Takes much of the fuckwittery out of it. Hopefully they will become permanent.
But then somebody will still be able to take out the railings if they drive too bloody fast...
That's not what happened though. Some person drove down there too fast and went straight through the barrier and into the water. That used to be my commute and you'd quite regularly see damage to the fence and hedge along the side of the crematorium. It's late night yobs driving in their modded cars too fast.
The road is a major route from Baswich to the tech park and other places of work and the road should be improved.
proactive
Enjoying a drop of red.
I never said that's what happened did I?
I simply said that the traffic lights have been an improvement.
Gramaisc
Forum O. G.
Has anybody in Stafford ever said that before?
Also, if we're talking about the fence on the bridge at the farm, then I can confess to having hit that on a bike, with nobody coming the other way.
proactive
Enjoying a drop of red.
Almost certainly not. But in this instance it would definately be of benefit.
Gramaisc
Forum O. G.
In that case, I will not advocate replacing the lights with a mini-roundabout.
Jonah
Spouting nonsense since the day I learned to talk
The traffic lights have not been an improvement. Queues back up the shops on Farmdown Road at times, queues regularly 15-20 cars long, people getting frustrated with the delays and going through the lights on red causing even longer queues.
If people just drove normally round the lane then there wouldn’t be a problem.
As for the barrier repairs… Highways are probably waiting for the insurance companies to pay out on the claim - just like they did when the middle stone bridge was hit twice.
Also, the road will most likely need to be closed to affect the repair. This takes at least 3 months from applying for a closure to get permission.
If people just drove normally round the lane then there wouldn’t be a problem.
As for the barrier repairs… Highways are probably waiting for the insurance companies to pay out on the claim - just like they did when the middle stone bridge was hit twice.
Also, the road will most likely need to be closed to affect the repair. This takes at least 3 months from applying for a closure to get permission.
proactive
Enjoying a drop of red.
Only been queues of 5 or 6 cars whenever I've been down there. The whole business of crossing that bridge had been far less stressful. But if as you say the queues have been that long at times then clearly lights are not the answer.
Maybe we could simply cull fuckwit drivers. We could start with the one who went through the railings, followed perhaps by the twat who drove into Weeping Cross Surgery.