Why has it taken so long for the road to be reinstated after the burst water pipe on the A1307 was fixed? It’s been nearly a week and is still not done. It is one of the main roads into a major regional hospital… surely this demands more urgency than is currently being seen.
I appreciate your post - please keep communicating this way
Regarding lane rental - can you expedite the process so that you can do this faster? Feasibility/consultation/DfT approval seems like it will take years and years for something that your article says has already been successfully implemented elsewhere.
Hi Adam, so it was the giant high pressure 12” water main which burst over a long section. This caused a phenomenal amount of water to be released, both under and over the road surface.
Whilst they were able to fix the leak relatively quickly, patching in a new pipe, due to the quantity of water it’s not quite a simple as filling in the hole.
Firstly they needed to bring in a specialist team with ground penetrating radar to examine the whole carriage way and make sure no sink holes or voids had been created. Nobody wants an ambulance ending up in a hole!
This has now been complete but next they need to plain off the entire road surface and fix some of the sub layer before relaying.
Tomorrow theyll be on site to plain off the old road, Saturday they’ll relay. Once that’s cured, on Sunday they’ll repaint all the road markings and Monday morning they’ll sweep the entire road, clean up / remove the TM. All being well it will be open again Monday lunchtime.
Regarding lane rental, I’m pushing for us to go as quickly as humanly possible. Worth noting that some LA’s have been refused by gov though due to not following the process properly.
Thank you for the clarity - it’s very useful for this kind of detail when communicating closures, as from the outside it seemed like nothing was happening! Alas, I now understand it wasn’t as simple as just filling the hole because of the size of the leak and amount of water released.
A bit, around 40% of the streetworks permits are for maintenance work etc to improve the state of the roads. We're doing record amounts of surface renewal this year but still the majority of the works are actually from utilities cutting into it and ultimately making things worse!
Hi Alex,
Why has it taken so long for the road to be reinstated after the burst water pipe on the A1307 was fixed? It’s been nearly a week and is still not done. It is one of the main roads into a major regional hospital… surely this demands more urgency than is currently being seen.
I appreciate your post - please keep communicating this way
Regarding lane rental - can you expedite the process so that you can do this faster? Feasibility/consultation/DfT approval seems like it will take years and years for something that your article says has already been successfully implemented elsewhere.
Hi Adam, so it was the giant high pressure 12” water main which burst over a long section. This caused a phenomenal amount of water to be released, both under and over the road surface.
Whilst they were able to fix the leak relatively quickly, patching in a new pipe, due to the quantity of water it’s not quite a simple as filling in the hole.
Firstly they needed to bring in a specialist team with ground penetrating radar to examine the whole carriage way and make sure no sink holes or voids had been created. Nobody wants an ambulance ending up in a hole!
This has now been complete but next they need to plain off the entire road surface and fix some of the sub layer before relaying.
Tomorrow theyll be on site to plain off the old road, Saturday they’ll relay. Once that’s cured, on Sunday they’ll repaint all the road markings and Monday morning they’ll sweep the entire road, clean up / remove the TM. All being well it will be open again Monday lunchtime.
Regarding lane rental, I’m pushing for us to go as quickly as humanly possible. Worth noting that some LA’s have been refused by gov though due to not following the process properly.
Thank you for the clarity - it’s very useful for this kind of detail when communicating closures, as from the outside it seemed like nothing was happening! Alas, I now understand it wasn’t as simple as just filling the hole because of the size of the leak and amount of water released.
Is there any link between Cambridge having terrible roads - and now there being lots of roadworks?
A bit, around 40% of the streetworks permits are for maintenance work etc to improve the state of the roads. We're doing record amounts of surface renewal this year but still the majority of the works are actually from utilities cutting into it and ultimately making things worse!