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Topic ID 2688
16/04/2007 by Arty
Road Resurfacing
Now that the road surface of Nelson Street is so smooooth, anyone got any nominations for Highways to spend a bit more of our cash? I noticed this morning that the brow of the ex-railway bridge at the bottom of Port Hill is cracking up. That would be fun if it had to be closed for resurfacing, wouldn't it?[:)]
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Reply ID 38676
16/04/2007 by Steve
How about putting up some pointless bollard type things in Bircherley Green. Uh-oh - too late - they've just done it! God forbid they should do something useful like properly fixing the broken paving there rather than just slapping down some cheap unsightly tarmac. Or maybe actually putting some lighting on top of the new streetlamp outside Sykes.
Reply ID 38678
16/04/2007 by sloopjohnb
The pointless bollard type things are electrical housing units which are going in all around town so that the charter market, farmers market and anyone else who needs to extract power for an event can do so. Because up till now there was no way. I started this with Highways and the market inspector back in September 2005 but pleased to see a start.
In order to maintain its A grade status County put the lions share of its funding into the M1, M25, A1 and A10 so that quality of life interests like resurfacing Bircherley Green where at least one person trips each week is put way down the list because if they disturbed the trunk road budget they wouldn't get any more. Once the bollards go in to stop the taxis ranking up there and prevent the overnight parking then it might be possible for me to put a bit more pressure on highways to resurface this part of town. [|)][|)]Then I woke up.
Oh and on my list of things to do when the lighting is updated for this years xmas lights I pointed out the missing lamp on the hollow column outside Sykes. Should be corrected along with the rest of the work scheduled for later this year.
Reply ID 38679
16/04/2007 by Steve
Sorry John, thanks for putting me right!
Reply ID 38680
16/04/2007 by Marilyn
Resurfacing Tower Street would be useful, closing it on weekday mornings from 8 am to 10 am would be the best idea...............
Reply ID 38728
17/04/2007 by jez_p
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Originally posted by sloopjohnb
In order to maintain its A grade status County put the lions share of its funding into the M1, M25, A1 and A10 so that quality of life interests like resurfacing Bircherley Green where at least one person trips each week is put way down the list because if they disturbed the trunk road budget they wouldn't get any more.
Surely the Trunk Roads should be funded by central Government.
We still pay council tax which should be spent on non trunk roads and the local environment.
Oh hang on a minute - isn't the government trying to De-Trunk all the roads in Hertfordshire so that they can increase taxes by the back door again.
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