A county council chief say a resurfaced road in Lichfield will not be damaged by vehicles linked to the demolition of a multi-storey car park.
The initial phase of the £1.1million project to upgrade Birmingham Road through the city has already begun.
The project is expected to take seven weeks to complete – and will soon be followed by further disruption in the area when the now-closed multi-storey car park is pulled down.
But Darryl Eyers, Staffordshire County Council’s director for economy, infrastructure and skills, said the newly-relaid road surface would not be damaged by machinery or vehicles involved in the demolition of the facility:
“The resurfacing of Birmingham Road, which started this week, will mean smoother journeys for those travelling through the town centre.
“Crews will not be using Birmingham Road as the access route for the upcoming multi-storey car park demolition.
“Nonetheless, our roads are built to support heavy goods vehicles so using freshly surfaced routes should not be a problem.”
Darryl Evers
Motorists have also questioned the decision to carry out the work in a period where slip road access to the northbound A38 at Streethay and a planned closure of Watery Lane could force more traffic towards the Birmingham Road in a bid to exit Lichfield.
Mr Evers said:
“Major highway improvements, such as this one, do take longer to complete so sometimes these works will unavoidably overlap.
“When this is the case, our traffic and network teams do their best to plan these works so that there is minimal disruption to local communities. “
Darryl Evers
Chaos.
“Crews will not be using Birmingham Road as the access route …” So they’ll be using Wade Street / Castle Dyke / Frog Lane instead? Hmmm.
Do the people organising these schemes have no common sense at all. Why not demolish the car park first and then resurface the road or even demolish the car park at the same time to reduce the impact of drivers and residents and delay the closure of the northbound slip on to the A38 until the work is done. Oh, hang on a sec….no that’s far too sensible. Back to plan A…..make life as difficult for everyone as possible!
The amount of time taken over these projects is ridiculous, the work out side of the retirement flats at green hill has been unbelievable, workers either not on site, standing around looking at phones arriving mid morning leaving mid afternoon, look at the car park at the housing association offices lot of work vans parked up at around three PM (a big back log of repair’s to tenants homes), companies do not work weekends on major jobs, a lack of planning, ie organising materials and trades to move the job along. This old saying “Never mind the quality just feel the width” comes to mind.
Don’t worry everyone. They’ll do their best. Great. That’s the emphatic response we’ve all been waiting for.
If they aren’t using the Birmingham Road for access for the demolition traffic they must be going to use Wade Street and Frog Lane. The chaos that will produce doesn’t even bear thinking about.
There really needs to be more investigation and discussion about the demolition, work and preparation that is going into the cinema.
Everyman posted a £2.7 million pound loss for the year ending 28 December 2023.
https://www.londonstockexchange.com/news-article/EMAN/final-results-to-28-december-2023/16424332
I am not sure what makes any of the councillors so sure, that the Lichfield venue is going to become a massive success.
“Nonetheless, our roads are built to support heavy goods vehicles so using freshly surfaced routes should not be a problem.”
Yep, as evidenced by the poor state our roads are in. Goodness you couldn’t make this up. Note also the use of the word “should”.
What happens when the redevelopment of the Birmingam Road site happens plus moving of the bus station , they’ll come along and dig the b****y road up. Reminds me if that Flanders and Swan song about the gasman calling.
Can we have a list of the HGV contractors hired to service the site? Because the outcome will be other HGV contractors will use road as a short cut, with the assumption that people will think they are part of it. Thus breaching weight restrictions.
It’s not just the demolition of the multi storey car park, what about the moving of the bus station, building flats on the old garage site up for sale, providing new proposed bus station by train station or isn’t any of this work envisaged for the next thirty years, still the roads worn out.
Completely different kerb layout if any of this ever goes ahead.
Or is it the same as when we were going to have a pedestrian bridge across the road, never happened