A KEY route in and out of Lichfield will be closed for long-awaited road repairs.
Large sections of the A5127 Burton Road through Streethay are currently dotted with potholes.
Now repair work is set to begin with a week-long closure from the railway bridge over the West Coast Main Line to the traffic lights at the A38 slip road.
A week-long closure will take place on 27th October to allow for “pre-surface dressing patching”.
Additional works are also scheduled to take place from 17th to 28th November when the road will also be shut.
Diversions will be in place during closure periods.
Here we go surface patching followed by wet tar and chippings, really for 1 of the main roads into the city? Please tell me it’s April Fools Day and in reality the road will be completely resurfaced in nice new tarmac?. Why on earth do we have to suffer botched up roads time and time again.
If they start and finish on time it will be a miracle ! Watch this space.
A week long closure starting Oct 27 th right let’s all wait and see if its open for Nov 3rd ? Then shut again Nov 17 th for 11 days ? Let’s hope its all clear for Father Xmas then ? Lol 😂
It just shows how short sighted it was all those years ago when only a south bound slip road was installed from Cappers Lane and not a north bound connection . Would that have been a Staffs Highways decision or National Highways. It would be nice to know the thinking behind that one.
More Road closures! Lichfield is a joke we have to plan journeys around this and, still the main work hasn’t been done 🙈
Genuine question here, could these two works be closer together? Does the ‘pre surface dressing patching’ need time to ‘go off’?
If past experience is anything to go by, the road will be closed at the end of October to resurface the road and then close it again in November to dig it up again for essential repairs.