T4tomo
Legendary Member
...and still not reached Abergavenny! Traffic congestion must be murder boom boom!
Car drivers frustrated and insulted
- Thread starter Drago
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If i go that way i go by bike………i can descend at 50mph, they can only drive 40mph lol…..the looks i get swerving in and out of the traffic lol
I'm shocked. Are you saying that the BBC have included a made up quote from a driver without any journalistic checks whatsoever...?
Anyone know if GB News have a perspective on the topic?
Dogtrousers
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I used to get the bus from Abergavenny to Ebbw Vale about 40 years ago. I can definitely say it took more than 10 minutes.
Where did you live dog????
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
I lived in Gilwern (the posh houses on Crossroads). I worked at Richards' in Abergavenny and got the bus to my Maths evening class in Ebbw Vale once or twice a week.
I had a few friends that lived on the crossroads……..and my school headmaster. How long ago did you live there??
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
Only briefly - in the late 70s. My parents were there for longer but I buggered off to be a student.
ClichéGuevara
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- Location
- Kingston upon the River Hull
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
- Location
- Northumberland
I have found the perfect solution to sp[eeding vehivcles... Nothumbertland Council have given Sattfordshire Council the contract to lay loose chippings in sprayed hot tar on the 6 mile stretch of dual carriageway from the roundabout for the southbound A68 east to the A68 northbound off slip road.
They have put a 10mph speed limit on the dual carriageway which is reduced to a single lane preventing people passing... because they are loose chippings which clatter up off the road surface and seriously chip your paint if you attempt to go over 10mph, so people are sticking religiously to the limit! It's brilliant!
They have put a 10mph speed limit on the dual carriageway which is reduced to a single lane preventing people passing... because they are loose chippings which clatter up off the road surface and seriously chip your paint if you attempt to go over 10mph, so people are sticking religiously to the limit! It's brilliant!
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Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Christ, some people are so bone idle lazy that they'd sooner endure a 10mph limit before theyd walk, cycle or take the bus.
i got two pictures here of what the top of the old road used to look like and the devastation caused to build the new road.......
This is how it looked before the roadworks started, in the middle of those trees is a derelict factory that had been shut for around 15yrs before the work started. They had to knock all that down and then do test explosions, to ensure the rock it all sits on didn't collapse and block the biggest caving network in europe.........which is just down the road at clydach gorge
http://www.brynmawrcavingclub.org.uk/local-caves/
this is one of the reasons the road cost so much to be upgraded
And this is about 3yrs later
as well as the road being upgraded all new pedestrian bridges had to be put in to re-connect clydach south with clydach north, as the old bridges were not long enough and couldn't be kept. As it was now a dual carriageway, new underpasses, roundabouts, junctions had to be built to get in and out of the local villages in the area........
trying to span the huge clydach gorge to create the extra lanes and removed large amounts of the mountain called black rock, is the reason for the over spend and the huge amount of extra time taken
another picture of the area of where the road goes....
This is how it looked before the roadworks started, in the middle of those trees is a derelict factory that had been shut for around 15yrs before the work started. They had to knock all that down and then do test explosions, to ensure the rock it all sits on didn't collapse and block the biggest caving network in europe.........which is just down the road at clydach gorge
http://www.brynmawrcavingclub.org.uk/local-caves/
this is one of the reasons the road cost so much to be upgraded
And this is about 3yrs later
as well as the road being upgraded all new pedestrian bridges had to be put in to re-connect clydach south with clydach north, as the old bridges were not long enough and couldn't be kept. As it was now a dual carriageway, new underpasses, roundabouts, junctions had to be built to get in and out of the local villages in the area........
trying to span the huge clydach gorge to create the extra lanes and removed large amounts of the mountain called black rock, is the reason for the over spend and the huge amount of extra time taken
another picture of the area of where the road goes....
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this is a picture of the old road on the right and the huge rockface to the left that had to be removed to build the extra two lanes. What the workers needed to do, to stop huge rocks dropping onto the cars below......a little further down you can see shipping containers that were filled full of hardcore, to stop the mountain slipping during excavation works
this is what is happening on top of that rockface
this is what is happening on top of that rockface
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this is the new exit out of gilwern junction, so that you dont cross all 4 lanes to go upto brynmawr. you can see the new foot bridge that was needed to span the road to connect gilwern up to the older church road to clydach
so as you can see, it was not an easy upgrade
just to the left of this is also a huge canal network that had to be re-inforced to ensure none of that collapsed during the upgrade, with new bridges and walkways needing re-building due to the road over hanging parts of the canal
so as you can see, it was not an easy upgrade
just to the left of this is also a huge canal network that had to be re-inforced to ensure none of that collapsed during the upgrade, with new bridges and walkways needing re-building due to the road over hanging parts of the canal
T4tomo
Legendary Member
Must have been an interesting cost benefit analysis, because building in a tight valley terrain like that costs a fortune, and the main benefit will be cutting accidents, rather than travel time, which is very hard to value.. It will have at least provided a load of construction jobs
