All posts in the topic Headington/London Road work starts on 14 July (Short link)
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- Latest post made by Mike Ratcliffe at Jul 15 08:35 UTC
Work on Phase 1 of the County Council's Headington/London Road scheme (from Pullens Lane to Osler Road) starts on Monday week (14 July 2008), and is expected to last until 27 February 2009. You will be able to get updated details of what is going on here: http://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/londonroad If you want more information about what the scheme involves, click on the "Background and Consultation" link on that page. (I thought the work had started this week when I saw the Headington Road reduced to one lane, but then realized that the gas and the electricity boards had both got in first at digging up the road -- this is probably sensible, as new roads are so often immediately spoilt by the utility companies.)
I posted a message over a week ago saying that work on Phase 1 of the County Council's Headington/London Road scheme (from Pullens Lane to Osler Road) would start yesterday (Monday 14 July). This is what the County Council were saying on http://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/londonroad and the Oxford Mail reported it too. The website has now discreetly changed the start date to next Monday, 21 July. I imagine this is because British Gas has not yet finished its excavations. I wouldn't want anyone held up by the temporary traffic lights on the Headington Road this week to blame the County Council. What we have now is just a prolepsis of what is to come.
They haven't changed the finish date. I wonder how slack is built in.
Derek
But the cheery sign still contains the glad tiddings that it will take 31
weeks.
With the 3 way traffic lights and the ending of Headington School's term, it
feels that the traffic is quite a bit lighter. It seemed that quite a bit of
the cross-Oxford traffic that squeezes through the Headley Way/London
Road/Brookside traffic lights just went another way.
(The gasman appears to have finished, but the temporary traffic lights remain)