Church Road reopened to through traffic Sunday night following the bridge installation on 24th August. Well done to the team for getting it open in time for the new school term. All the bus services have reverted to their normal routes. Temporary traffic lights will be in place while final works are carried out to redivert utility cables and complete the bridge parapets. It’s anticipated that the bridge will reopen fully in late November.
South Glos has also started reinstating the street lights on the pedestrian refuges on Badminton Road, which were removed so the bridge could be brought through. The 30 repeater signs that were attached to them won't be going back as they are no longer lawful signage.
The 30mph repeater signs haven't been lawful for well over a decade. You cannot have repeater signs together with a system of street lighting on a restricted road.
ReplyDeleteSuch placement of signing completely contravenes existing regulations and does nothing other than confuse motorists who then expect to see them everywhere.
The signs should never have been put up in the first place.
I can't recall exactly when those repeater signs were put up, but I'm pretty sure it's more than 10 years. The council certainly hasn't been putting repeaters up on lit roads all the time I've been on the council, which is over 7 years.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't that make it even worse then if what the first poster says is accurate? If the signs have been up for over ten years & the council knew all the time they shouldn't be there, then it don't matter when they were put up, they should have been removed the instant the council knew they were unlawful. To even suggest they wouldn't know that a long stretch of carriageway had loads of unlawful signs along it is nuts. From what you've said the existing council have been even more complicit by leaving the signs in place for so long.
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