Upper Orwell Crossings update

[sailorman]

I would like to know the name of the idiot in the Highways Agency!

FOI request or ask young Gummer to check for you

 

[Hadenough]

I would like to know the name of the idiot in the Highways Agency!

It's probably Roger most idiots I have met have been called Roger.

 

[Stork_III]

It's probably Roger most idiots I have met have been called Roger.

Yep, seems to work on this forum anyway.

 

[Kukri]

FOI request or ask young Gummer to check for you

I'm over the border in Coastal so I'll have to ask Therese Coffey, in his father's old seat.

 

[Otter]

After the chaos today when Highways England closed the Orwell Bridge for 12 hours because of "high wind", most people will surely be demanding that money is spent on a Northern By-pass rather than fiddling about with the docks area. A few people might also be interested to hear how Highways England decided that the wind was 80mph, when there was nothing like that that at Felixstowe.

Amen brother.

 

[Kukri]

I don't think a Northern by-pass will happen. An upgrade of the railway to full double track was looked at and declined in the course of the F2N (Felixstowe To Nuneaton) study which was concerned with freight movement from the Port of Felixstowe to the Midlands at a time when container volumes were rising fast, and if there isn't money for that, then there certainly isn't money for a rerouting of the A14, aka the Northern by-pass...

 

[Burnham Bob]

One of the problems with an opening bridge is that if it opens on demand it will snarl up the very traffic it's spposed to relieve..........

 

[Leighb]

Maybe they will have fixed and well published opening times as at Lowestoft?

 

[Cantata]

Hmmm, Holland seems to manage very well with hundreds of bridges.

 

[sailorman]

Hmmm, Holland seems to manage very well with hundreds of bridges.

North,South or The Netherlands

 

[Cantata]

OK, Zeeland if you want to be picky as that's the area I know best :encouragement:

 

[PeterWright]

Yes I'm assuming it would open for bigger ones but 15m would admit most.

The Nederlanders don't take such a miserly view on their major waterways, and are in the process of replacing opening bridges with tunnels so that both wet and dry traffic can pass uninterrupted. (Fixed that before Sailorman could complain).

 

[PaulRainbow]

15 metres at MHWS would allow almost all mast up traffic through without opening the bridge

Bridge clearances are based on HAT these days Simon

My airdraft is almost 14m, without the antennas, so i'd be a bit wary at anything near HW.

 

[sailorman]

The Nederlanders don't take such a miserly view on their major waterways, and are in the process of replacing opening bridges with tunnels so that both wet and dry traffic can pass uninterrupted. (Fixed that before Sailorman could complain).

Some canals go over motorways too :encouragement:

 

[sailorman]

Here yer go