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Post by mainline on Jan 2, 2013 22:57:31 GMT
The scheduled widening of the carriageway to provide 4 lanes of traffic in each direction, with hard-shoulder running and new gantry signs between Junctions 32 and 35A will now not commence until April. They should have started this month.
It is anticipated that these works will take 2 years to complete.
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Post by paddy1534 on Jan 7, 2013 22:16:19 GMT
What are they going to do over the viaduct, where it is currently 2 lanes? Take it down from 4-2, that will create a serious bottleneck!!! Not that its not bad enough already!
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Post by thrybergh on Jan 10, 2013 15:56:20 GMT
What are they going to do over the viaduct, where it is currently 2 lanes? Take it down from 4-2, that will create a serious bottleneck!!! Not that its not bad enough already! Now that is a very good point you make, presume some work would have to be undertaken on the viaduct to enable it to operate 3 lanes in each direction, as wasn't it a problem with the total weight and EU governance or something that saw it downgraded originally in 2005? As for M1 roadworks, be warned from next Monday as between Thurcroft and Catcliffe it will be 50MPH with average speed cameras to allow the central reservation to be replaced with the new concrete blocks. |
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Post by ateam on Jan 10, 2013 18:30:19 GMT
What are they going to do over the viaduct, where it is currently 2 lanes? Take it down from 4-2, that will create a serious bottleneck!!! Not that its not bad enough already! Now that is a very good point you make, presume some work would have to be undertaken on the viaduct to enable it to operate 3 lanes in each direction, as wasn't it a problem with the total weight and EU governance or something that saw it downgraded originally in 2005? As for M1 roadworks, be warned from next Monday as between Thurcroft and Catcliffe it will be 50MPH with average speed cameras to allow the central reservation to be replaced with the new concrete blocks. So far as I'm aware the work done a few years back gave the viaduct the capability to operate as 3 lanes again, but the police opted to keep it with a lane drop and gain and each end as it made it safer - it gives refuge to queueing traffic for Meadowhall during peak periods, freeing up the other two lanes and helping prevent pile-ups. I'm assuming the viaduct will go back to 3-lane operation, with the 4th lane dropping and gaining - just like now, but with an extra lane. |
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Post by lv426 on Jan 14, 2013 7:49:09 GMT
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That's exactly what I would assume, too.
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Post by paddy1534 on Jan 14, 2013 23:30:41 GMT
I have been told by a friend that the discerning factor in changing it to two lanes was an accident where a car broke down, stopped in hard shoulder, another car stopped to assist then the second car was hit by a lorry and the driver of the first car was pinned between the two cars, they decided there wasn't enough safe space in the existing hard shoulder, so it was altered to what we see today! This came from a friend of who it happened to, so is a reliable source!!
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Post by mainline on Jan 25, 2013 12:34:30 GMT
Plns have now gone on show and are currently at The Source centre off Meadowhall Way in Tinsley until 8pm tonight.
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