Works on the A142 BP roundabout at Ely are currently ahead of schedule – and the Council will be bringing forward the carriageway surfacing which will now start on Monday 19 October for five nights.
For those five nights, all arms of the roundabout will be closed with access granted only to the frontages of the A10/A142 and the services area. Depending on where the works are taking place vehicles may be asked to travel the appropriate diversion route to access properties within the works area.
Diversion route west
Diversion route north
So if these are the diversion routes, why are we getting so much extra traffic through Coveney and Way Head to Little Downham – on mainly bumpy, single track roads with passing places ?
These will be the official diversion routes for the five nights when the roundabout will be completely closed, starting Monday 19 October. There are no official diversion routes for the current works, because the roads (with the exception of the road east from the BP roundabout into Ely) are not closed, just held up by traffic lights and single lane working.
Because there is no other way to the north-ish…… or single track Red Fen or near Stretham (to the south):
Now, we still have the Lancaster Way roundabout re-development To look fwd to JUST IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS! I have started to go to St Ives, 10 miles from my house (10-15mins max) ….. going to Ely 10-15 mins usually but then add the enormous 3-way traffic lights. It took me 28 mins to get from Tesco to Wentworth this week and that was using Red Fen (which is dangerous, as single track). Please, please give us all a break. This summer COULD have been used for road repairs etc while Covid ‘rules’. I have seen a few repairs/devs but not enough during a time we were in lockdown.
N.B. Family Members and friends have never stopped working (lucky because of IT devs. In many cases but don’t forget the people working in F2F contact who carried on….. because THEY HAD TO!…… despite risks. Reading stats today it seem scientists etc with their ideas, graphs etc have lost track of what EVERY DAY LIVING entails and how to work with that. I almost cried when I read about the ‘Nightingale Hospitals’ and their lack of use… I know staffing is a problem but we are now in autumn and we can expect the usual ‘flu influx. Sorry everyone but I am ?????
Krysi, some good news which may help – the BP roundabout work may finish in early rather than late November; and Lancaster Way won’t begin until the new year.
A lot of the staff supervising the Council’s highways work were seconded into the ‘hub’ supporting shielding residents during the first wave of the pandemic so weren’t available for their regular jobs.
The Government advice at that time was that people shouldn’t be going out to work unless they were key workers. This meant that some of the council’s suppliers were not working, making it difficult for Skanska etc to carry on as usual without a supply chain behind them.
I agree it’s all been very frustrating.