Residents and road users are reminded that work to stabilise the embankment at St John’s Road in Wroxall, which caused significant disruption when it partially collapsed, will start next week.
The Isle of Wight Council scheme, delivered by Island Roads, involves removing tonnes of unstable earth and constructing a new retaining wall. The wall will be profiled to improve visibility for highway users and those using the nearby bus stop.
Work is scheduled to begin on 2nd March and last eight weeks.
Due to the scale of the embankment works, a full 24-hour road closure will be required between Appuldurcombe Road and Whiteley Bank for the duration of the project. Redhill lane will also be closed for the duration of the works.
Subject to progress on site, Island Roads aims to reopen the road under traffic-light control for the Easter Bank Holiday. Access to properties will be maintained at all times.
An Island Roads spokesperson said:
“We know residents of Wroxall have had their fair share of work to contend with but, as with the recent road surfacing, they will know that this work is also very much needed.
“We will endeavour to complete the project as soon as possible and will of course keep the local community updated on progress.”
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To deliver the work, Island Roads will partner with local firm DDGA, known for delivering specialist projects such as the Gills Cliff Road steel netting scheme and also the re-decking of the Cement Mills Viaduct on the Cowes–Newport cycle track.
Island Roads has already met with Wroxall Parish Council and the local Isle of Wight ward councillor to discuss the project. Affected residents should also have received a letter explaining more about the project.
The shuttle bus service that has provided a connection between Wroxall and Ventnor during the current Island Roads highway improvement work, will continue to run the same temporary service during the embankment project.
The road was temporarily closed before two‑way traffic lights were introduced for several months from late 2022 into early 2023, after tonnes of earth slipped from the embankment and spread across the highway.
Temporary measures were installed in February 2023, and the forthcoming scheme will replace these with a long-term solution.
About time these works should have been carried a long
time ago.
but why were they not carried out when they had the road shut before?
it seems that IR delight in maximising incovenience for Island residents.
There’s this..
& the current replacment of water main on horsebridge hill, & resulting diversions. (which could have been carried out when the road was closed before, for the new junciton)…
& plenty of other times when different works could have been amalgamated, to minimise disruption… but IR chose not to.
My thoughts exactly, but because the island is
run by clueless numpties, what does one expect.
It’s the blind leading the blind.
Why the hell does this need 8 weeks closure. Can someone please tell us why?? I can see no reason at all for that length of time to keep the road closed.
Because Island Toads spend half their day sitting in
trucks.
I’ll tell you why, because just like Eleanors grove they have only 2 men working on the whole stretch everytime I drive past. Horse bridge hill had only 3 men the other day, this island is becoming a laughing stock to the rest of the country. Not only do they take forever but I absolutely guarantee once these roads are done they’re going to be bumpy, car damaging patchwork quilt roads like the rest of the rubbish work down here.
WANKERS..
Took my son nearly an hour from 5 pm trying to go up Duel carriage way into Cowes nothing was moving..
If this work isn’t urgent, then, considering what’s happened in Shanklin village with temporary lights, they should delay as with more traffic travelling through Shanklin, it’s going to be chaos.
The traffic lights at Lake have been out of action for
over 3 weeks
It appears that no Numpty on the island knows how to
repair traffic lights
Probably end up being another bestoke signal box having to be made like the one by the Hare & Hounds.