Following further queries from residents and road users lately with regard to the near-permanent road-works on Blackhall bank we have asked the highways department at county hall for a progress report (previous updates are recorded elsewhere on this site).
Last month we also asked them to consider a realignment of the traffic lights to allow for two-way traffic to be reinstalled.
We received a reply from the highways engineer this morning and we have reproduced it below. We will seek a further update after the review meeting due to be held next week and continue to press for a reinstatement of two-way traffic in this location.
There are two issues here. There is the landslip and a collapsed culvert
in the dene. To compound matters, there were problems with gas mains and
leakages. The permanent works to resolve the landslip and repair the culvert will not
take place until next springtime.
We held a meeting last week to look at ways of amending the traffic management
arrangements to open the road to two way traffic, in the interim.
I'll get an update on the TM arrangements tomorrow.
