3 busy Newport roads are to be upgraded during night-time work by Island Roads shortly.
Lugley Street, Crocker Street and Mill Street are all due for resurfacing over 7 nights – not including weekends – starting this Thursday (6th August).
The roads contain a mixture of business and residential properties so night-time work has been chosen, on balance, to minimise disruption
The roads will be closed to traffic between 19:30 and 06:00 to allow work to be carried out as swiftly and as safely as possible.
In order to reduce the impact on residents and road users, the work will be split into several phases:
Phase 1 (1 night): Crocker Street between St James Street and Mill Street and Mill Street between Crocker Street and Old Westminster Lane. During phase one it will also be necessary to close an additional section of Mill Street from Foxes Road to Old Westminster Lane.
Phase 2 (1 night): Crocker Street between St James Street and Holyrood Street. During this phase it will also be necessary to close Holyrood Street from Sea Street to Lugley Street.
Phase 3 (2 nights): Lugley Street between Holyrood Street and St James Street. During this phase it will necessary to also close Holyrood Street from Cocker Street to the High Street.
Phase 4 (3 nights): Lugley Street between St James Street and Hearne Street and Mill Street between Crocker Street and the High Street. During this phase it will also be necessary to close Hearne Street from Lugley Street to Ceasar’s Road.
The areas of work will be coned off the night before the work and when the cones are in place, residents are asked to move their cars in another location to enable the work to take place.
These planned phases are however subject to change and residents are advised to keep an eye on the yellow information boards on site and on the Twitter feed @islandroads for any such changes.
Island Roads construction manager Keith Gourlay said:
“These roads are well used routes to get across town, they serve many local businesses and they are also residential so it is a particularly complex scheme to plan.
“But they are clearly in need in need of improvement and we hope that by phasing the works we will keep inconvenience to a minimum.
“However, such is the nature of the scheme, it is impossible to undertake the work without causing some localised disruption and we thank residents in advance for their understanding.”
Why was this not done during lockdown. It seems a no brainer to me
It was not done during the lockdown because there was a lockdown. Doh!
Still carried on with roundabout though. Didn’t stop them.
Likely just a thick layer dolloped on the top of the old crumbling layer to fail later.
As they never break up the old surface and just keep adding to the height, the kerbs and driveway entrances will overflow in heavy deluges.
Soon have the roads higher than the pavements.
Shoddy, and not as we were promised BEFORE they had the contract. For then they said that all Island roads were to be dug back to create new foundations as that ‘was and still ‘is’ the issue with many of our roads. But clearly much cheaper to just wack down a thick layer to cover the subsiding subsoil, and know you will be long gone before it is ever questioned.
I’ve seen them fill potholes with tarmac and stamp them down! Last less than 24 hours! Waste of time and our money.
Best hope one of the town drunks does not decide to crash in the street. Likely just tarmac them over, under the ‘surface’ and use him as a speed hump as a sleeping Policeman.
And there hand.
Also, while I do admit that the surface on those roads are in a rather bad way, why on earth don’t they first finish the jobs that they have already started – just to mention St Mary’s roundabout / crossing for a start.
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Another case of bodge it and scarper
No it’s Bodge-It & Sod-it
When is Taylor Road going to be sorted? It’s a disgrace and getting worse by the day