So Network Rail, is the maintenance going well?
Tuesday at 1.30pm: Not a workman in sight.Photo: SG170112-22MD
NO show and dead slow Network Rail has had another kick up the backside with district councillor Gary Taylor telling them to “get on with it” as they set out to upgrade the level crossing in Spalding’s Woolram Wygate.
Traffic was flowing freely over the crossing on Monday morning – the first day of the advertised six-week closure.
Traffic barriers were up by Monday afternoon. But there was no sign of any real work being done and the picture was just as quiet on Tuesday and yesterday morning.
Coun Taylor lives next to the crossing and said yesterday the closure had been on for two-and-a-half days and no one had begun to install the new barriers.
He said: “Network Rail should just get on with it. I have seen some cones go up and some lights go on the cones but no actual work. It’s a major Spalding junction. Thousands of vehicles use that road.”
Coun Taylor said Wygate Park residents have complained to him that too few people on the estate were informed of the closure by Network Rail.
He had a letter himself but residents living just one street away hadn’t received a thing.
Coun Taylor says the diversion route is taking a hammering both from the volume of traffic and the weight of heavy lorries using it and the crossing work should be done as quickly as possible.
• One resident said there are roadworks at the Park Road junction with Pinchbeck Road, which is badly timed as they are on the diversion route.
• Network Rail has contacted the Spalding Guardian today (Thursday) to reiterate the apology for the inconvenience which it issued to go with the initial story we published about the work.
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fenlander
Monday, January 30, 2012 at 11:47 AMWeek 2 and they look as busy as they did in week 1, no sign of anything going on again at 11 this morning when I drove past.
bertie65
Friday, January 20, 2012 at 02:45 PMif this work had been given to sub contractors with a time limit it would have been done ages ago instead of british rails workforce takeing its time as there on hourly pay and couldnt care less about road closeures
spaldonian
Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 01:55 PMfenlander...probably doing all this to install more traffic lights. It's a wonder they haven't put any in at the Park RoadPinchbeck Road junction!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Network Rail need to get their finger out and do the work round the clock, not just for 2 hours a day, with the obligatory hour tea breaks and 2 hour lunch breaks!
fenlander
Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 01:40 PMRoadworks here, roadworks at the Park Road junction, more to come at West Elloe Avenue, another set at Enterprise Way. Is there any part of Pinchbeck Road that they're not fannying around with?
woody
Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 12:14 AMPark Road is faling apart.
HollygoLula
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 07:33 PMThey cant start work till the Police put in the obligatory speed camera and when they do, the workforce will move in and do what they do best...scratch their backsides and drink tea all day....only after a full H&S inspection has taken place though!
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