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£1m work on red route delayed
Saturday 5th December 2009, 11:00AM GMT.
Work on a congestion-busting red route along a major road in the Black Country has been delayed, over ‘design issues’, it was revealed today.
The work on the route from Burnt Tree to Great Bridge was due to start early in the new year but has now been pushed back to the spring.
It was originally hoped the project, which is costing almost £1 million, would start last month.
But Sandwell neighbourhood’s chief Councillor Mahboob Hussain said today: “Work is due to start in the spring – the slight delay in work starting is due to some design issues which had to be overcome.”
Double red lines will be installed all the way along the A461 from the Burnt Tree junction to Great Bridge. Preparation work has already started.
Sandwell has been given £8.6 million for red route projects across the borough and is also undergoing a number of other road improvement schemes.
Another red route will run from West Bromwich to Great Barr, starting at All Saints Way and Newtown Road. Work began at the start of last month and is due to last for a year.
The £8.6 million for the red routes has been allocated under the West Midlands Local Transport Plan.
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Not the best advert for Labour-run Sandwell, but if the Tories win Rowley Regis/Halesowen they will probably have a Commons majority and only voting Labour there can block that. However, if Labour also hold Wolverhampton SW 40 seats further up the Tory target list they will probably maintain their own Commons majority and only voting Tory there can prevent that.
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Hugh seems to cut-and-paste this type of comment (altering the constituency details as he goes) on the websites of every local newspaper around here.
So tell us instead, Hugh, which party do you yourself support – on principle – and why?
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I guarantee you this: classifying this particular stretch of road as a ‘Red Route’ will do practically nothing to address the terrible congestion. This is a ridiculous way of addressing what I consider to be the real issues: sheer volume of traffic; poor design (eg Great Bridge Island system), as well as the particular ‘appeal’ of standing in the cold waiting for local transport. I haven’t seen many cars blocking this route at all, that is not the cause of the problem and this plan will fail, you watch..finally ‘fixing’ Owen Street won’t make much positive difference, either.
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Now you add up the amount of revenue this region has already lost due to this problem. In fact if I recall it’s been well-documented in this very paper. Yet all of a sudden there’s an election and money falls from the sky: it makes me sick sometimes, to see this happen again and again and every single time, the money seems to be a complete waste. But you vote these people in..this is what you get. Those who can afford to leave and get away from this perpetual drudgery, have already gone and with them so has part of this region’s future.
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I have known a council as bad as sandwell/wolverhampton for making changes to roads to “improve” them and then after the work is done change it yet again there have been two routes so far this year in the willenhall/darlaston area that have had this happen GET IT RIGHT FIRST TIME this costs money which could be spent repairing the roads instead
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Complete waste of money, it will do nothing to ease traffic congestion along this road. What’s needed a dual carriageway from the Black Country New Road, with flyer overs, which will also bypass Burntree Island, right into Dudley. Only then will this solve the congeston problem.
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