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Work on red route is delayed for a third time
Friday 30th April 2010, 11:30AM BST.
Work on installing a red route along a major road in the Black Country has been delayed again, the Express & Star can reveal today.
Painting red lines and other works which will ban vehicles stopping from Burnt Tree to Great Bridge was due to start in November, before it was pushed back to the new year and then to May. The latest date mooted is the end of June. The delay has been blamed on design issues. Details about pedestrian crossings and traffic lights are being ironed out.
It is claimed the project, which is costing almost £1 million, will reduce congestion.
Sandwell neighbourhoods chief Councillor Mahboob Hussain said today: “We don’t want to rush this, we want to make sure everything is right.
“We have decided now that the traffic lights at the junction of Dudley Port and Sedgley Road East will now be operated by sensors, so when the traffic is heavy, they will be on green for longer.”
He added: “We have also decided to put in a new crossing at the same junction and more traffic lights at the junction with Upper Church Lane.
“This is a big project, we want to make sure it is perfect.”
Double red lines will be installed all the way along the A461 from the Burnt Tree junction to Great Bridge.
The preparation work has already started.
Sandwell has been given £8.6m for red route projects in the borough as part of the West Midlands Local Transport Plan. It is part of a series of road works taking place.
The Express & Star revealed last week that work on a £24m road scheme is due to start in West Bromwich in June.
Up to two years of delays are expected when construction gets under way on the underpass on the A41 Expressway.
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Sheer waste of money. Red routes do not stop or ease conjestion. You only have to witness the A34 from the Bell Pub down to the junction with the Broadway in Walsall to see these schemes do not work. The problem lie elsewhere with badly designed junctions, badly designed approaches to junctions & not having areas for car to turn right without blocking the road.
Also reducing the speed down to 30 doesn’t help.
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Sorry replying to my own message. The other things that doesn’t help conjestion removing the lay-by type bus stops
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A red route from Burnt Tree to Gt Bridge will ease congestion! Yeah right. Why not revert back to the plan of a dual carriageway from Burnt Tree to Gt Bridge instead of cycle lanes which nobody use’s because they ride on the path. As for having sensors on the lights at Dudley Port to operate at busy times how will that work when the idiots coming down from Burnt Tree totally ignore the BIG yellow lines in the box junction ie: “do not enter box junction unless your exit is clear or you are turning right” or does the highway code not apply to people on their way to work / school. Dudley Port lights are a joke and that junction should be made a priority instead of paint red lines along the road. Who is going to enforce this “no stopping” scheme.
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Correct! Are you listening council people?
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Sandwell neighbourhoods chief Councillor Mahboob Hussain said today: “We don’t want to rush this, we want to make sure everything is right.” ….Is he having a laugh? Since when have they EVER done anything right?
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A red route will not make any difference. The problem is entirely that this is a single carriageway all the way. Only widening the road will make any difference.
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Keching, Keching, Keching,
That’s what its really about, generating money for the Part Time Councillors to pay for their Free Pensions, its like anything else that this power crazy council does, anything this council does has to comprise of two things, the power to control the tax paying peasants and the provision to generate another form of income for the council.
Ask for your road to be cleaned, sorry no cleaners available, provide the means for earning money from Parking Fines and the area is swarming with bodies.
I just hope that the Sandwell Residents will at last get some backbone and kick these clowns out in the coming elections.
Jim of Bearwood
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