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Months of motorway works (From Daily Echo)
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Months of M27 works set to cause delays at junction 9
4:00am Wednesday 13th February 2013 in News
By Emma Streatfield, Senior Reporter
Months of motorway works
MOTORISTS are facing months of lane closures and speed restrictions on one of Hampshire’s busiest motorways.
From next Monday, work will start on a £5m scheme to upgrade a bridge on the M27.
Set to take seven months, the work will take place on the bridge at Junction 9 at Park Gate and will include installing a new concrete central reservation barrier. This comes as plans have been revealed to completely shut part of the motorway further west for separate work.
Steve Cobb, Highways Agency Structures Manager said the work at Park Gate was needed because the existing bridge supports and joints have come to the end of their life.
They are replacing the central reservation at the same time to minimise disruption.
Workers will resurface sections of lane three and the hard shoulder, which will involve overnight lane closures and is expected to be complete by mid-March. Then narrow lanes and a temporary 50mph speed limit will be installed.
To set this up there will be overnight closures of both carriageways between junctions 8 and 10, including the slip roads at junction 9.
The roundabout and slip roads will be closed to replace the joints.
Meanwhile work will be carried out next month on the eastbound carriageway of the M27 between junctions 4 and junction 5.
As previously reported in the Echo, the essential work over a weekend is to prevent the build up of surface water on the motorway when it rains.
The motorway will be closed between junction 4, where it meets the M3, and junction 5 near Eastleigh.
The Highways Agency has clarified that the work will start from 9pm on Saturday, March 9, through to 5.30am on Monday, March 11.
It was initially thought that the closure would be in force from 9pm on Friday, March 8.
The agency also clarified that the diversion route for drive travelling eastbound on the M27 will be via the M3 junction 12 and not at junction 13 as initially thought.
Comments(17)
lambo83
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9:44am Wed 13 Feb 13
Well done daily echo
hulla baloo
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11:09am Wed 13 Feb 13
lambo83 wrote:Hmm. Daily Echo should have capital letters. No ' required in roadworks.
I'm amazed that the daily echo has managed to write a whole article on roadwork’s without using the term "misery" or "chaos".
Well done daily echo
lambo83
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11:22am Wed 13 Feb 13
Georgem
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12:13pm Wed 13 Feb 13
S!monOn
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12:47pm Wed 13 Feb 13
Georgem wrote:I can see what you were attempting.
Yep. Out of the five motorways - at a stretch - in Hampshire, the M27 is definitely one of the busiest. Certainly in the top 5 busy Hampshire motorways, anyway.
Unfortunately, it hasn't come across as funny. I'd describe it as sad.
Jerry Parsons
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12:49pm Wed 13 Feb 13
S!monOn wrote:Sorry, but it did make me chuckle; well done Georgem.
Georgem wrote:I can see what you were attempting.
Yep. Out of the five motorways - at a stretch - in Hampshire, the M27 is definitely one of the busiest. Certainly in the top 5 busy Hampshire motorways, anyway.
Unfortunately, it hasn't come across as funny. I'd describe it as sad.
hulla baloo
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12:50pm Wed 13 Feb 13
lambo83 wrote:Before you criticise others, or try to belittle them, make sure you are correct.
Who cares you mong.
hulla baloo
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12:51pm Wed 13 Feb 13
lambo83 wrote:Stereo type answer for those that are proved wrong. Resort to name calling and insults.
Who cares you mong.
Georgem
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1:10pm Wed 13 Feb 13
S!monOn wrote:Luckily, I don't care what you think.
Georgem wrote:I can see what you were attempting.
Yep. Out of the five motorways - at a stretch - in Hampshire, the M27 is definitely one of the busiest. Certainly in the top 5 busy Hampshire motorways, anyway.
Unfortunately, it hasn't come across as funny. I'd describe it as sad.
soton_resident
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1:22pm Wed 13 Feb 13
Two police cars and a police van leading a procession of double-decker buses in the first lane.
S!monOn
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1:43pm Wed 13 Feb 13
Georgem wrote:Yay.
S!monOn wrote:Luckily, I don't care what you think.
Georgem wrote:I can see what you were attempting.
Yep. Out of the five motorways - at a stretch - in Hampshire, the M27 is definitely one of the busiest. Certainly in the top 5 busy Hampshire motorways, anyway.
Unfortunately, it hasn't come across as funny. I'd describe it as sad.
hulla baloo
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2:03pm Wed 13 Feb 13
soton_resident wrote:If I remember correctly, it was for the football fans, Saints v Pompey.
Anyone know what's going on in the picture accompanying this story?
Two police cars and a police van leading a procession of double-decker buses in the first lane.
wossit
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3:44pm Wed 13 Feb 13
lambo83
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5:08pm Wed 13 Feb 13
hulla baloo wrote:Stereotype doesn't have a space in it according to the Oxford English Dictionary...... you mong
lambo83 wrote: Who cares you mong.Stereo type answer for those that are proved wrong. Resort to name calling and insults.
lambo83
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7:10pm Wed 13 Feb 13
lambo83 wrote:And anyway shouldn't that be "STEREOTYPICAL answer for those that are PROVEN wrong"
hulla baloo wrote:Stereotype doesn't have a space in it according to the Oxford English Dictionary...... you monglambo83 wrote: Who cares you mong.Stereo type answer for those that are proved wrong. Resort to name calling and insults.
I'm just saying, because I'm a great believer in checking you're right before criticising or belittling others...
YOU MONG
Ozmosis
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10:49pm Wed 13 Feb 13
Ozmosis says...
9:34am Wed 13 Feb 13