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Sue Wrote:

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> first mate Wrote:

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> -----

> > Still, once it is done pedestrians will have a

> > 'nicer' experience, so has to be worth it.

> >

> > I quote JB from an earlier thread last year

> >

> > " The NXR/LL has a number of pedestrian

> movements

> > but primarily these works are to make this

> > junction more pleasant and a better

> experience."

>

>

> But according to the plan above, all that is being

> done is "resurfacing".

>

> Do you have a link to the other thread you

> mention?



Look at post Southwark nx road plans 11 nov 2014. Shows more than just resurfacing. Cllr Barber responses to all


You might have to dig not too good with it but it's there

Dog duck Wrote:

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> Why not just treat it as a 'pop up' inconvenience?


Yes . Exactly..


It's a minor inconvenience if you need the bus stop..


The crossing is still in place..

BUT Iceland has now gone. I'm sure it will all be fixed by the time M&S comes to town.

Otherwise there will be riots.


Foxy

But the point is, it's an "inconvenience" which is going on far longer than it should because nobody is bloody working on it.


And it's probably not a "minor" inconvenience if you have a disability which means it takes you much longer than most people to walk to another bus stop.


GRRRRRRRRR.

James Barber Wrote:

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> The junction works involve concrete which has to

> be left to set properly or it will have a shorter

> life span.




Ah OK, fair enough then, (nearly) all is forgiven :)

Just to note that the workmen are out there today installing kerbs.


I was so happy to see this that I chatted to the guys and asked what the hold-up was and they said that they had to wait for the granite kerbs to arrive from China.


The kerbs should be done by Monday and then they'll install the pavement, so hopefully it will all be done by the end of next week, fingers crossed.


The granite deliver delay isn't a wind-up, this has happened before (the Melbourne/EDG raised junction for example)... Southwark orders in bulk to save money (not just from China, there have been delays from Ireland as well), but works get delayed when supply runs out of the specified units.

  • 2 weeks later...

Pleased to report that they are charging through the road works at the moment at least 3 stones completed a day................


Really can they go any slower ?


There are no more then 4 workmen on site at one time and by the looks of it 2 have to be talking and eating or sitting ?


WTF how slow when is the completion date 2018 ? Totally acceptable for a main road to take this long,

James Barber Wrote:

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> The length of time being taken is quite

> astonishing. Pease accept my apologies that the

> contractors FMConways are being allowed to do

> these works so very slowly by Southwark Council.

it will be great when finished but.


But what exactly is it ??


DulwichFox

bob Wrote:

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> Making the pavement almost twice as wide and the

> road twice as narrow ??????

> Bob S



Will reduce the cost of a barrier if Cllr B thinks it might be a good idea if someone considers it a good idea to boost property valves

bob Wrote:

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> Making the pavement almost twice as wide and the

> road twice as narrow ??????

> Bob S


Hang on, lads; I've got a great idea.

Let's pedestrianize Lordship Lane, back track on the Melbourne Grove scheme and send all the Buses through there.



DulwichFox

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