Forest roadworks cost garage £45K in trade
Tuesday 23rd November 2010, 2:29PM GMT.
ROADWORKS have cost Forest Road Garage £45,000, its managing director said yesterday.
After six weeks of diversions, Forest Road, the main route to the airport, is due to open today or tomorrow – and businesses say it cannot come soon enough.
Forest Road Garage MD Dale Crowsley (pictured) said that since the work began his business, which employs 25 staff, had lost on average of about £1,000 a day.
‘Whilst I understand the need to do roadworks it’s had a massive effect on our business,’ he said. ‘Losing £1,000 a day is not an insignificant amount but we’ve just had to deal with it.’
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A few services will soon make up the shortfall.
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Can’t he sue the governemnt over the lost income? They should have left the road partially open for traffic.
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The road disruptions up along the Forest Rd and Les Cornus were over two months. This farce started on the 13th October. There have been little or no proper diversion signs and for the first few weeks the powers that be had the brilliant idea of diverting main traffic off the Grand Rue down the Rue de Coutures, then meeting the traffic that had been diverted off the Forest Rd and diverted down the Rue des Grons. This resulted in total gridlock. For the remainder of the roadworks the Environment thought it quite acceptable for residents to use the approved diversion route through St.Andrews and the Forest to get back into St.Martins. The reason given was so the moving road blocks (aka as buses) could speed down the Rue des Grons then Saints Rd. The fact these buses could be replaced by mopeds and the same level of service would be maintained was neither here nor there. Why it has taken over two months to tarmac a few hundred yards of road was not explained when I rang and complained. It seems obvious that if each roadworks was tackled mob handed the job a. Wouldn’t take so long and b. Unnecessary road closures where no work is taking place could also be avoided.
I feel very sorry for all the businesses affected by the latest road closures, and some of the stories I’ve heard in the vicinity of pets being run over as lanes have been turned into rat runs and the elderly getting lost and missing appointments are legion.
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Is this really news worth reading about?
I lost a few quid because of the bad weather the last couple of weeks if anyones interested in knowing? no thought not.
And i doubt anyones intereted in the garage losing so money either.
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