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Letter: Oversight of Roadworks Diversions and Signage is Much-needed
Published on: 8 Apr, 2025
Updated on: 7 Apr, 2025
From Peter Mills
In response to: Surrey Taskforce Wants Better Systems To Reduce Disruption Cause By Roadworks
Maybe this taskforce can start to reduce disruption by taking responsibility for oversight of works. A couple of weeks ago there was a ludicrous diversion in place around Wodeland Avenue.
When I attempted to get some signs put up in more sensible places that might prevent the traffic chaos, I discovered that SCC absolves itself of responsibility and its website directs enquiries to the contractor.
The works closed Wodeland for one day. The “road closed” signs stayed in place for a further three or four days and were eventually removed on a Sunday, presumably by someone getting paid double time.
This is not an isolated incident.
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Jack Bayliss
April 10, 2025 at 9:58 am
I think it goes even further than that. The Task Force should query whether disruptive roadworks are needed in the first place unless to do with utilities. A good example is the “traffic calming” measures put in place on Broadford Road which closed the road for five days. Two unlit traffic islands have been put in the road, although there is a joint foot/cycle path on one side only, and hatched white lines painted down the middle of the road.
I have put in a Freedom of Information request for the cost of that work, and whether there is any record of an accident, having occurred on that stretch of the road in the last few years. I await a response.
Paul Robinson
April 10, 2025 at 4:17 pm
A few weeks ago, in Weylea Avenue, there was worked planned at a bus stop. Signs went up about the forthcoming three days of disruption a couple of weeks in advance. The temporary traffic lights and cones were set up on Saturday morning. The work didn’t start until Monday morning.
Incidentally the was the exact same work carried at another bus stop in Sutherland Avenue (about 150 yds away) about three weeks before.
Why wasn’t the Weylea work started as soon as the Sutherland Ave work was completed instead of taking all the equipment back to the yard and taking it out again a few weeks later to the same area, eating fuel and increasing pollution?