Main road in Worcester to be closed for next four nights

4:44pm Friday 3rd August 2012 in News By Sarah Taylor

Main road to be closed for four nights Main road to be closed for four nights

A MAIN Worcester Road will be closed for the next four nights from 7.15pm tonight.


Crookbarrow Way, which is the main road between the Whittington Roundabout and the Norton Roundabout will shut at 7.15pm tonight for surface dressing works.

It is due to re-open no later than 7.30am tomorrow morning but will then close again at 7.15pm.

The road will then be closed again during the same period over Sunday and Monday night.

Worcestershire County Council said the work may take less time and if that was the case the road would be opened as soon as possible.

Comments(7)

Name unknown says...
4:51pm Fri 3 Aug 12

You're a day late - it was closed last night as well!

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Andy_R says...
5:05pm Fri 3 Aug 12

It was closed on Wednesday night too - it's not the Worcester News fault, it's the council causing huge delays by not bothering to tell anyone about the closures, and not doing what any sensible person would do and only close one lane at a time with a stop-go. These roadworks were supposed to be a simple matter of building a couple of slip roads, and shouldn't have needed to go onto the main carriageway at all, let alone close the entire road in both directions! Why can't this council do any sort of road work properly?

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DEMRICS says...
9:22pm Fri 3 Aug 12

Andy_R wrote:
It was closed on Wednesday night too - it's not the Worcester News fault, it's the council causing huge delays by not bothering to tell anyone about the closures, and not doing what any sensible person would do and only close one lane at a time with a stop-go. These roadworks were supposed to be a simple matter of building a couple of slip roads, and shouldn't have needed to go onto the main carriageway at all, let alone close the entire road in both directions! Why can't this council do any sort of road work properly?
The highways department are more or less incapable of doing anything without using common sense and intelligence, and yet it's the public that suffers all the time. I'm afraid to say that there appears to be a culture of incompetence within this department and in my mind, heads should roll if my experience with highways staff is anything to go by.

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telontour says...
10:43am Sat 4 Aug 12

Incompetence is indeed rife in the Highways department. Whilst we all appreciate road works are necessary most if not all, are very poorly thought out. It would be an interesting concept if all the department was made to drive the route both ways during peak times each day. Maybe that would have a positive impact on their thought process. I am somewhat sceptical on that one though.

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Severnside says...
11:54am Sat 4 Aug 12

I agree too, incompetence is rife to the point where it is almost laughable at times. They create one problem after another. They couldn't organise the proverbial in a brewery, yet alone manage roads properly. I see there is already a thread on the WN forums regarding the competence of the highways department, which I hope highways staff are reading.

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thompson9100 says...
10:40pm Sat 4 Aug 12

With all the moaning going on, maybe those who think they can run it better should get together and put in a bid to take over the department from the council! The government has a scheme for that.

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WilkoJ says...
2:59pm Sun 5 Aug 12

thompson9100 wrote:
With all the moaning going on, maybe those who think they can run it better should get together and put in a bid to take over the department from the council! The government has a scheme for that.
If we knew that such an approach would be accepted by the council, people would. But any opportunity for this to happen, or to volunteer to assist and show current highways staff how things should be run, will in reality be resisted. So our roads will continue to be run by incompetent staff.

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