A12 rant

pvb said:
..............I've just returned from 10 days in Tenerife, during which I drove over 1000km on this tiny insignificant island, which has beautiful main roads, so smooth and even. Why can't we do the same?
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Noticed the same in Madeira a few weeks ago. Roads all built on solid rock, instead of East of England gloop, and little truck traffic??
 
Did it yesterday late morning up to Ipswich, didn't see any work going on either side of the road - why are the cones and the speed restriction there?

Came back to Walton via Manningtree but was lucky - approaching the A120 a caravan had just gone up a bank & I imagine when the police arrived it would have been a long closure.
 
When living in Holland we saw them do similar night time road repairs. I would come home at 7pm with no sign of roadworks. Next morning at 7am i would find half a kilometre of road fully resurfaced and finished, but again no sign of roadworks.
I suppose the Dutch usd some sort of special technology not available in the Uk ;)
 
Tia said:
When living in Holland we saw them do similar night time road repairs. I would come home at 7pm with no sign of roadworks. Next morning at 7am i would find half a kilometre of road fully resurfaced and finished, but again no sign of roadworks.
I suppose the Dutch usd some sort of special technology not available in the Uk ;)
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Perhaps "The Cone" hasnt reached Holland yet:)
 
Tomahawk said:
The reason the A12 is overloaded is because there are no alternative roads.

A trip fron Essex to Kent involves the A12 and the Dartford hold ups.... Yet you can see Kent from the town centre of Maldon. It is 20 miles in a straight line.. yet 54 miles via the roads. The answer is to build an extra lane on the A12. This will of course involve accidents because they are building on a live road. People will be killed and at the end there will be no change the the road capability of the country.
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M6 from M5 junction to Stafford turn just having hard shoulder turned into a lane for what used to be called "managed motorways" now "smart motorways"! Barriered off with huge blocks and 50 limit but people are working.
 
The muppets are doing the same on yhe M3..

Adding capacity to existing roads with the attendant problems at the junctions at greater cost than building new capacity.
 
News that the A12 roadworks between Copdock and East Bergholt will continue to cause disruption for another month has caused serious irritation among motorists and the business community in Suffolk.

I say no more.
 
My guess is that it'll take even longer than that! The project has been handled dreadfully, and the quality of the resurfacing is poor.

All we need now is for the "authorities" to decide to make the average speed cameras a permanent feature, to generate money to pay for the imminent repairs.
 
"All we need now is for the "authorities" to decide to make the average speed cameras a permanent feature, to generate money to pay for the imminent repairs."

They've already started that bit - from Highways England website http://www.highways.gov.uk/roads/road-projects/a12-kelvedon-average-speed-cameras/
"The average speed cameras are proposed to assist enforcement of the existing 70mph speed limit, using technology similar to that on the A14 between Huntingdon and Cambridge."
"The scheme cost is approximately £840,000"

Not that anyone exceeds 70mph but just in case you do it'll cost you. I expect they're hoping to recoup the cost fairly quickly - (to great benefit of all motorists - hahaha)
 
Little Grebe said:
While crawling through the 'roadworks' going Southbound on Sunday morning I noticed signs installed for permanent average speed cameras on that stretch of the road currently being resurfaced
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Was that the Hughes Corner stretch? The permanent average speed cameras there are now operational, between Stratford St Mary and East Bergholt.
 
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