It takes years for road works, why?

[Khamelion]

Why does it take so bleedin long to get any kind of road work completed? Nigh on two years to widen a 5 miles, give or take a couple, stretch of road past the Metrocentre, yet the Dutch can put in a new tunnel over a weekend. If that was in this country the road would be closed for months.

Have a look at this

[video=youtube_share;DEa9jrkQm0c]https://youtu.be/DEa9jrkQm0c[/video]

 

[Bunkermagnet]

Very impressive, but you forget we can only have work done our mains roards between 1 and 2 in the morning 7 days a week, with the cones needed to be left there all the time, and for 6 months each side of start and finish. The workers have other things to do the rest of the time, and so nothing is done except on overtime

 

[SocketRocket]

Why do they cone off a two mile strip of the Motorway to carry out some work for 20 yards.

 

[ger147]

Why does it take so bleedin long to get any kind of road work completed? Nigh on two years to widen a 5 miles, give or take a couple, stretch of road past the Metrocentre, yet the Dutch can put in a new tunnel over a weekend. If that was in this country the road would be closed for months.

Have a look at this

[video=youtube_share;DEa9jrkQm0c]https://youtu.be/DEa9jrkQm0c[/video]

It was the same after the major Japanese earthquake. A fly over collapsed and smashed onto the motorway below. The Japanese had it re-built in a matter of days. Here in the UK that would have meant 3 years of diversions and contra flows.

 

[Beezerk]

Why do they cone off a two mile strip of the Motorway to carry out some work for 20 yards.

Elf and safety innit.

 

[Blue in Munich]

Why do they cone off a two mile strip of the Motorway to carry out some work for 20 yards.

Elf and safety innit.

Incompetent drivers is nearer the truth.

 

[SocketRocket]

Incompetent drivers is nearer the truth.

Incontinent drivers need to get a move on

 

[shewy]

They work during the day!
Why on the m5. & M6 is there 20+ miles of roadworks, why don't they complete 1 mile at a time. And who sanctions such long stretches

 

[jdpjamesp]

Looks like they are trying to do something about it... http://www.driving.co.uk/news/fines-for-roadworks-with-no-workers/

Proof in the pudding as always though.

 

[ColchesterFC]

They work during the day!
Why on the m5. & M6 is there 20+ miles of roadworks, why don't they complete 1 mile at a time. And who sanctions such long stretches

I always wonder this about local roadworks as well. Recently in Norwich there were at least 12 separate areas that were being worked on all at the same time. Why not do 6 at a time and put twice as many people on each? Or 4 at a time and have three times as many people on each? Get the first one done in far less time and then move on to the next one rather than having all twelve dragging on for weeks or even months at a time. I know sometimes emergency repairs are required but these were all planned works. There must be a reason but I have no idea what it is.

 

[WillT]

I know the pain. They're building a road near my house. It takes forever...

The workers have other things to do the rest of the time, and so nothing is done except on overtime

Yeah, same here. I got the impression that they're just lazing around the whole day... There's really no one to supervise their work?

 

[FairwayDodger]

The worst is the lack of coordination between various companies and authorities. Road next to me was closed for months last year, it was chaos. They finished the work and opened it for a week before someone else came in and dug it up again. That finished and a fortnight later it was closed again for more work. It was infuriating.

 

[User62651]

Same with road accidents, in France they assess and clear the road really quickly of debris and then work out what happended for reports, here they close the road for a whole day, make diversions taking 2 hours extra costing millions to the economy in lost time then state the bleedin obvious as to what caused it.

Here in Oban they decided to replace all the waterfront pavements with a nicer tan colour pavement (not sure why, worked fine before), this has taken about 6 months so far with dust and noise and endless coned off areas and traffic jams greeting the hordes of tourists coming here for the scenery and sea views, should have all been done by April when it is still quiet. Give the job to a bigger contractor who can do it on time, not the cheapest taking a year. Council's to blame as usual.

It's just the British way sadly.

 

[351DRIVER]

The guys doing the actual labour are probably getting an hourly rate, why would they be in a hurry to do anything?

I think that is the problem, you have then people wanting to keep their pals in work so there is no urgency really