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What clown at West Berkshire Council decided that a Saturday was the best day to dig up the canal bridge in Newbury? |
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| PaulaM |
| October 23, 2010, 10:27am |
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What clown at West Berkshire Council decided that a Saturday was the best day to dig up the canal bridge in Newbury?
I did mention this a while back ................... |
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| BrianB |
| October 23, 2010, 11:41am |
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What clown at West Berkshire Council decided that a Saturday was the best day to dig up the canal bridge in Newbury?
The most irksome thing about all of this is that the problem on the bridge and in Bartholomew Street was caused by Southern Gas Networks. I understand that the council have 2 years from the date of the original excavation to claim reimbursement. At this particular location, the 2 years have expired and the current work is being paid for by West Berkshire, in other words you and me. With regards to the work, if they did it on a weekday, they would cause chaos for rush hour traffic and deliveries. Doing it on a Saturday and Sunday they cause misery for shoppers. Doing it over 3 weekends is ridiculous. They should have chosen 1 week, (Monday to Friday) and got on and done the job without shutting the job down for 5 days and then starting it again. Trouble is common sense has never been a stong point. |
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| richard.garvie |
| October 23, 2010, 12:29pm |
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Oh dear. As Paula rightly says, she pointed this out ages ago. You think they would be able to see that Brian, what excuse do you think they will give when that is pointed out to them? |
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| HJD |
| October 23, 2010, 12:46pm |
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Wait's with baited breath untill some one from the Highway's Department comes along with some feeble explanation !!  |
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| user23.3 |
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What clown at West Berkshire Council decided that a Saturday was the best day to dig up the canal bridge in Newbury?
In your view what is the best day to dig up the canal bridge in Newbury? Monday to Friday it would impact on commuter traffic so Saturday seems ideal to me. |
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| Threepwood |
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So, over this Friday Saturday and Sunday, they completely closed the London Road outside Waitrose all day, they dug up the Canal Bridge, and carried on with the roadworks in Bart Street.
Phew! thank God it wasn't a race weekend eh? ........oh,.....um.....er.......hang on......
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So, over this Friday Saturday and Sunday, they completely closed the London Road outside Waitrose all day, they dug up the Canal Bridge, and carried on with the roadworks in Bart Street.
Yup, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, the days with the least traffic in Newbury. |
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| BrianB |
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What is the best day to dig up the canal bridge in Newbury?
You obviously didn't read my previous post. To me being a mere mortal with no NVQ in highway maintenance, I would have gone for a road closure for five days (Monday thru Friday) and done the job in one hit with the possibility of completing by Thursday rather than have 3 disjointed attempts over 3 weekends (six days). They will be back again next Saturday digging up the northern part of Bartholomew Street. |
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| user23.3 |
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You obviously didn't read my previous post. To me being a mere mortal with no NVQ in highway maintenance, I would have gone for a road closure for five days (Monday thru Friday) and done the job in one hit with the possibility of completing by Thursday rather than have 3 disjointed attempts over 3 weekends (six days).
They will be back again next Saturday digging up the northern part of Bartholomew Street.
Monday thru Friday are the busiest days for traffic and would have disrupted the most people. Have you never wondered why almost all work on the railways is done over a number of weekends. It's for the same reason, the least inconvenience to the least people. |
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| jay |
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No day is a good day. More concerned that we are having to pay for the bodged job that British Gas did. |
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Yup, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, the days with the least traffic in Newbury.
And the maximum pedestrian flow. You seem to forget that most shoppers have to park in the south of the town now that they have closed Park Way. You only have to listen to the comments of the pedestrians trying to cross the bridge this morning to realise that this has been a further deterrent to shop in Newbury. |
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No day is a good day. More concerned that we are having to pay for the bodged job that British Gas did.
Exactly!!! |
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Monday thru Friday are the busiest days for traffic and would have disrupted the most people.
Have you never wondered why almost all work on the railways is done over a number of weekends. It's for the same reason, the least inconvenience to the least people.
Traffic would find an alternative route until the work is complete. Pedestrians (shoppers) will find an alternative town next Saturday. |
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| user23.3 |
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Traffic would find an alternative route until the work is complete. Pedestrians (shoppers) will find an alternative town next Saturday.
And what about pedestrians during the week, the town's workers, would they have to find an alternative town to work in? |
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