Motorists face 3 months of travel disruption between Sandown and Shanklin at the start of 2023 due to works to the railway bridge at Lake.
Temporary traffic lights are set to be erected on Lake Hill to allow Network Rail to undertake a refurbishment project to the girder bridge that spans the busy main road.
The scheme is set to begin on 6th January and continue until 6th April 2023.
South Western Railway has confirmed to Island Echo that the works will not impact the Island Line timetable – although it is far from normal at the moment anyway due to staffing issues and national strike action. Trackside works will be taking place at night during the middle of the week between 11th February and 25th February.
The exact extent of the disruption to those travelling along The Bay corridor is not yet known, but Island Echo understands 2-way temporary lights will be erected either side of the bridge at the junctions with The Fairway and Brownlow Road.
Least it is not a busy road and no schools or anything nearby to worry about.
Surely they could do this work safely without having to have lights and any work that did require half the road closed could be done at quite times to minimise the known disruption.
Seems the motorist is being price off the road, and hampered when on the road in a deliberate attempt to lower driver numbers so soon only the ‘better people’ will be driving on quite roads once more.
You’ve got to be kidding???!!!
Lake is a traffic disaster at normal times.
Bridge of Sighs. Bet price inflation for temporary traffic lights has gone through the roof.
An EU directive I understand that anyone working on roads now ‘has’ to have so much ‘distance’ between them and traffic, which means even small repairs etc has to have lights to comply.
I guess lawyers make the UK to afraid to not comply with such now so as the motorist is being priced and punished off the roads, looks like we are stuck with such now forever.
Why does everything seem to take so long to get done on the Island these days?
If this was work being done on a busy bridge over a railway in London do you really think it would take them 3 months to sort it? I can almost guarantee, much like all the other road works on the Island, that if you drive past every day you’ll rarely see anyone working.
How long did it take to build a new roundabout at Smallbrook (and is there any discernible difference now)? How long did the sewer works at Appley take? How long did it take them at St George’s Way in Newport? It’s taken almost a week at Yarbridge for some workers to turn up at the roadworks after installing temporary lights (and even then they were sitting in their vans).
Well said Catherine..I couldn’t agree more. Can you imagine the chaos this will cause at peak times.. Traffic halfway through the lights at the Heights.& Lake -School Busses backed up down the Broadway.. Uhh-..I can’t bear thinking about it..
When has there ever been three months WITHOUT disruption in Lake????
3 months, doing what? How about manning it properly with 3 x 8 hour shifts and no mobiles. Even less if you were to lift out the current rusty structure and lift in a new one. And why wasn’t this done when the fantastic railway was shut down, for how long? Ryde Pier story again? Where next?
Don’t worry too much as the Island residents are fast become accustomed to being mucked around.