Motorists are being advised to expect delays on the main Newport to Cowes road at Horsebridge Hill until the middle of the month.
Those travelling along Horsebridge Hill are being urged to take alternative routes or travel outside of rush hours if possible while the current phase of work – expected to last until the end of next week – is being undertaken.
Traffic lights are currently in place to allow new sewerage systems to be connected to the housing development which is nearing completion. Because the work involves deep excavations it is not possible to re-open the road safely outside of working hours. Island Roads has however requested that the contractors work extended hours as long as it is safe to do so.
While Island Roads has liaised with the developers to insist the temporary traffic lights are capable of reacting to differing traffic volumes and/or controlled manually at peak times, the road is so heavily trafficked that delays are unfortunately inevitable.
As the focus of the work moves from the northbound carriageway to the southbound carriageway, the usual parking layby will be used in addition to the northbound lane, to allow the traffic lights to be removed, which should improve traffic flows for the remainder of the connection project.
The usual scenario the other day, one digger driver caressing the tarmac with three bone heads watching the hole that hadn’t yet been made.
It would help if the Stag Lane lights were co-ordinated, but that’s probably beyond the scope of the contract.
To many houses, to many cars, to many people. (imo)
More raw sewerage for SW to dump around the coast!
Island Roads encouraging long hours of work? The only work I have seen is either 4 men looking down the hole or this afternoon 4 men standing away from the hole talking with their hands in their pockets!
Island Roads are totally toothless in getting work done,infact the current rate of work is about the same as Island Roads work at,and no doubt once the hole is finally filled in this year or next the traffic lights will remain for several days more.
I am sure it will all be worth it when the social housing tenants have a lovely new insulated, home all for free, just for breeding more needy to ensure the destruction of the Island never ends at this generation
Once again, there’s no sign of those paid to manage traffic actually coming up with a traffic management plan. This is about the third time lately there have been significant disruptions to traffic on that key stretch of road, probably to do with that small clutch of terraced houses being built next to the eyesore yard flogging Christmas trees and old cars. Where are the diversion signs? Why couldn’t this bit of work have been done together with the earlier bits of work at the same location?
Who is being paid to manage this…. and why aren’t they?