Perelle becomes priority case for road resurfacing
Wednesday 27th February 2013, 3:00PM GMT.
This section of coast road at Perelle was identified as needing resurfacing in 2014, but has deteriorated so badly that the work has been brought forward. (Picture by Steve Sarre, 1306433)
DETERIORATION of the coast road at Perelle has led Public Services to bring forward work on a 200-metre section of it.
The length between La Croix Martin and Rue du Catioroc was due to be in 2014’s resurfacing programme, but PSD said extensive cracks have forced it to be addressed as a priority.
The road is on the main route for aggregate being transported for the improvements to the airport runway.
Due to the closure of Route du Longfrie, these vehicles are only using the eastern section of the route in both directions.
A PSD spokesman said: ‘La Croix Martin was identified as in need of resurfacing before the start of the mass haul operation.’
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Of course it was
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It was fine until Lagan started using it all day every day.
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Maybe they should have magic pixies fly the 400,000 tons of aggragate from bulwer avenue to the airport…
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@ Liam
Do you live along there , as i said it was fine before the trailers with super singles on instead of twin wheels which makes all the difference on corners . i have seen it with my own eyes , they tear up the top coat with the weight .might be a good idea to look at the kerb edge a bit further along that road.
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maybe after all that, Lagan will resurface the whole island as part of the contract?
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What? Even the 100′s of miles of lanes they never go anywhere near?
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@ Binou
Now that’s a good idea , they would probably do a better job.
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Presumably it was a “tea break” when the photo was taken?……
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Its not the only road cracking all the roads seem to be cracking. take a good look and you will see the zigzags towards the pavement side (visible when the roads have dried a little). A civil servant once asked me what I thought of the new top coat that was being used, I replied that it seemed not to stay stuck to the the surface below – he agreed as he had observed the effect himself.
Soon all the roads will need resurfacing as most motorists are aware evidenced by the increase in “potholes” even on recently (past 3-5 years) resurfaced roads.
As for trench reinstatement its a joke look at Mount row traffic lights. Maybe some retraining may be needed.
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….more roads on the Lagan route to be coincidentally in need of extensive repairs coming our way soon, no doubt.
What was that about how it was all still within budget and
they hadn’t spent the whole of the contingency fund?
I think the caveat I mentioned they’d forgotten to add was, ‘yet’.
No I didn’t expect magical powers to transport all the cr*p from one end of the island to the other, but perhaps a tad more honesty from PSD about all the costly damage all these bulky transport vehicles were inevitably going to do over a two year period to our already fragile roads would have been appreciated.
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…..I was at the meetings where concerned residents who lived on the Lagan route were told the ‘best they could hope for’ was to take ‘before’ pics of their properties, and to take ‘after’ pics of any damage to their property that they considered had been caused by the constant heavy traffic movements, so they could address their concerns (and any claims) to Lagan itself, as PSD had no obligation – or intention – of taking responsibility for it.
Fair enough, some might say, bet those living on the route don’t think that, though…
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Lagan’s heavy vehicles may well of contributed to the damaged surface but it is unfair to completely blame them – many of the island roads have deteriorated drastically over the last year.
Just look at the surface on the Bouet traffic lights by the chippy and also the filter in turn at the Sausmerez park end of the Landes du Marche as other examples, no Lagan tractors and trailers use these routes.
I think the combination of an extremely wet past twelve months (including some pretty cold conditions since new year) are as much to blame.
Still, it seems so people find it much easier to just blame Lagan rather than look at the bigger picture!
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I don’t ‘just blame Lagan’, Kevin, I blame PSD, who were well aware of the already fragile state of our roads, and who consistently played down the damage these heavy vehicles and their multiple journeys would do despite many people voicing their concerns.
It’s not going to just be the coast road that needs fixing, but many others on their route, I’m betting, and with the contingency fund more than half spent and the job only half done, the cost of the repairs can and possibly will exceed what’s left in the pot for such things.
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All the people conplaining about Lagan and there heavy vehicles need to come up with some alternatives..
The airport needed to be sorted and st sampsons was the only logical place to import the materials. maybe it could have been done with smaller and lighter vehicles but this would take twice the time and therefore twice the money.
Im afraid it is what it is and thats the end of it. im sure in a few years it will all be forgottan about and everyone will be able to get back to complaining about other things.
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Fair comment Scarlett but I don’t know what alternative there was (other than road transport), I seem to remember one other option that was looked at involved putting a temporary dock near Petit Bot and conveyor belt system up to the airport but that was obviously a non starter!
Maybe the poor roads on the route Lagan use should have been sorted before they arrived?
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