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Warning of motorway misery as £5m work gets underway (From Daily Echo)
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Warning of motorway misery as £5m work gets underway
7:20am Monday 18th February 2013 in News
Motorists warned of motorway misery as £5m work gets underway
MOTORISTS facing months of lane closures and speed restrictions on one of Hampshire’s busiest motorways from today.
From today 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(11)
Ozmosis
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8:14am Mon 18 Feb 13
LeTissiersEarLobe
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8:40am Mon 18 Feb 13
bigfella777
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9:43am Mon 18 Feb 13
Niel
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10:04am Mon 18 Feb 13
bigfella777 wrote:Having witnessed cyclists using the M27 several times, one riding up the off ramp at J10 against the flow of traffic, another going East to Park-Gate getting off at J9, I can only surmise a lot of cyclista's think they should, and they should be able to use them!
Not an issue for cyclists, there shouldn't even be any motorways in my opinion.
Big Mac
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10:37am Mon 18 Feb 13
bigfella777 wrote:Guessing you don't approve of saddle s on bikes either.
Not an issue for cyclists, there shouldn't even be any motorways in my opinion.
miltonarcher
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2:31pm Mon 18 Feb 13
bigfella777 wrote:As you are so stupid your opinion counts for nothing.
Not an issue for cyclists, there shouldn't even be any motorways in my opinion.
dolomiteman
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10:30pm Mon 18 Feb 13
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.'
The only person who 'thought' was whoever wrote the original Echo article, no one including the HA had said the clousure would be from the friday or that traffic would divert via J13.it was only the Echo that made those comments.
Ginger_cyclist
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12:36am Tue 19 Feb 13
Niel
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9:03am Tue 19 Feb 13
Ginger_cyclist wrote:Saving fuel, maybe if it were flat, I'll stick to two powered wheels thanks. Train, 2 miles of walking and 2 changes minimum, and if the state of the ECML (broken rails on high speed sections) is anything to go by little chance of further investment.
Save fuel, cycle that 20 miles to work or get the train, maybe then your precious motorways will last longer, also more people using the trains would force them to make improvements you know.
As for road wear, it's the trucks that do most of the damage to the motorways, in town it's the air suspension buses pounding the roads apart, cars by comparison do little except be congestion...
Ginger_cyclist
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12:16pm Tue 19 Feb 13
Niel wrote:Many people also drive vans as personal vehicles and many drive 4x4's in the city, further increasing road wear, cyclists in comparison, barely scratch the surface but you are right about air suspension on buses and HGV's but it's not helped by the fact that there's already holes to begin with but cycling can be just as quick as driving, depending on the route you take and how fit you are, for me, it's quicker to get into town and back by bike, quicker than a car or bus, just go across the rail bridge by St Marys stadium heading into town and you'll find a series of ruts/gullies going across the road that the council still haven't fixed, even after it has been reported weeks ago.
Ginger_cyclist wrote:Saving fuel, maybe if it were flat, I'll stick to two powered wheels thanks. Train, 2 miles of walking and 2 changes minimum, and if the state of the ECML (broken rails on high speed sections) is anything to go by little chance of further investment.
Save fuel, cycle that 20 miles to work or get the train, maybe then your precious motorways will last longer, also more people using the trains would force them to make improvements you know.
As for road wear, it's the trucks that do most of the damage to the motorways, in town it's the air suspension buses pounding the roads apart, cars by comparison do little except be congestion...
Lockssmart says...
7:48am Mon 18 Feb 13