Delay in fixing patchy road (From Bucks Free Press)
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Delay in fixing patchy road
7:20am Sunday 2nd September 2012 in News By Luciana O'Shea
Oakridge Road
BUCKS County Council’s delay in completing the resurfacing of Oakridge Road has divided residents, as they will need to sit tight for at least another week before the work is finished.
Last week residents expressed their disbelief at the state of their road after council workers laid asphalt around parked cars leaving bizarre bare patches.
It is part of the programme called "We’re Working on It", by Transport for Buckinghamshire (TfB).
A resident male chauffeur, who asked not to be named, said: "It is clear the job doesn’t look that good. It already looks gritty, and the way the traffic goes up and down it looks like it is going to lift very quickly."
He added: "I am no expert, but I will give until this winter for the road to be back to the way it was."
The TfB’s two-year resurfacing programme started a year ago on a £25 million budget.
"I think the council should have waited for more funds to do a better job", said the chauffeur.
Spokesman for the council, Dan Green, said it usually takes around four weeks to return to sites, such as the Oakridge Road, to finish the treatment.
He said: "It needs time to bed in, but we cannot do on a wet weather, so the rain has already set us back." And completing the work is likely to take even longer, as not only gaps left by parked cars must be filled, but yellow lines are still to be repainted.
Some residents, such as retired Sue Cook, were not pleased by some of the people who left their cars there.
However, the male chauffeur said: "The council changed the dates for resurfacing twice, so I think at the end people just thought it wasn’t going to happen."
He added Oakridge residents cannot blame outsiders for parking on the road, as some, such as teacher Rosie Archer, 29, do so on other roads. "I have chosen to park my car in another road because it’s safer", she said.
Mr Green said there has been a suggestion that some of the parked cars may have been abandoned. "If this is the case, then TfB will have to arrange for their removal", he said.
Some residents find the temporary lack of parking restrictions convenient. A retired resident said: "I hope it stays like that forever."
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Comments (6)
9:24am Sun 2 Sep 12
Shazzbug says...
9:53am Sun 2 Sep 12
miccles says...
Who in their right sane minds would do a job like this? This just goes to show what and how BCC waste taxpayers money, this is just shambolic, and how Dan Green can sit on his backside and defend this kind of work is beyond me.
This also boils down to the leader of BCC, Mr Tett (the railway enthusiast), who like spending hundreds of thousands of taxpayers money on his project to make him look like a hero, he should go.
Does this photo and workmanship look like that we live in ANOB, its a total embarrassement.
11:45am Sun 2 Sep 12
gotanybiscuits? says...
You can't have it all!!
1:03am Mon 3 Sep 12
Voyeur says...
9:27am Mon 3 Sep 12
Judge 2 says...
Further to that the part of the road pictured is notorious for cars being left here untouched for long period’s explaining why the drivers could not be located when the work was being done.
These repairs take time to organise and put things in place. Its very difficult that come the day the contractors turn up and their faced with cars still parked on the road.
Chauffeur is a posh work for taxi driver.........
12:20pm Wed 5 Sep 12
Judge 2 says...