Oversized lorries start airport runs next week
Friday 17th February 2012, 9:00AM GMT.
OVERSIZED trucks up to 16 metres long will be on Guernsey’s roads from next week as preparation for the airport runway redevelopment moves up a gear.
But the deliveries will be at night and under escort to avoid disruption.
The Public Services Department, which is managing the project, has warned that while tipper trucks and tractors will deliver during the day, the oversized delivery vehicles will be travelling at night to move heavy machinery.
‘On average there will be around 10 [large vehicle deliveries] per week, with a peak of around 25 during the initial mobilisation of plant and equipment at the end of the project,’ a department spokesman said.
‘The first oversize delivery will be in the early hours of Monday, when a bulldozer is taken to the airport on board a low-loader.’
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Wow! that will slow speeders down, a side benefit that.
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“On average there will be around 10 [large vehicle deliveries] per week” if they can find their way around the road works first :)
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Mobile traffic calming measures. Woop! Woop!
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who would have thought that carrying that much hardcore would require large high-torque vehicles?
what were people expecting Bedford Rascalls?
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How long after all this traffic will the roads have to be re-surficed due to extreme wear.
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Got a better idea Josh? Perhaps all this kit could just float to the airport, save driving it on the roads (which incidentally are designed to have things driven on them).
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As resident Evil (Muah ha ha ha haaaa) Genius I have just finished my anti-gravity machine,I’m quite prepared to rent it to the States of Guernsey for £2.50, a used VW Scirocco key and a lifetime supply of Ormers.
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hmmm … the next emergency road closure could prove interesting.
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Hard to believe Guernsey is being further ruined in this manner
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… and what about Mr Redhead’s collapsing drains?
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I`d bet that all of you who are posting negatively will be tucked up in your beds while this equipment is being moved about and you won`t even know anything about it.
Which brings out the question, What the hell are you complaining about?
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I see the haulage of hardcore from Ronez at northside has already begun , with 3 axle tipper trucks , however, the route does not appear to be going around the west coast! as they are going through town and forest road, so the project is in its first couple of days, and already the stories we were told are not correct !
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Oh NO!! Calamity!!!! Vehicles too big for the roads,who’d have thunk that’d ever happen? Perhaps with all these large vehicles about they may STOP the random road closures for no reason. It DOESN’T stop congestion and it DOESN’T cut down on pollution, it INCREASES pollution because people have 3 miles to drive instead of 1.5 cos of all the idiotic diversions.
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