20 mile detour to home for 3 weeks = 40 miles a day

NelliePie · 9 August 2018 at 10:33AM

parking_question_chap wrote: »

No doubt you would probably want to claim compsensation if they didnt do they work and your car got damaged.

^^^ THIS! ^^

The work will be to improve the roads! (or some other aspect) and therefore improve your usual commute. What would you do if they let the road fall into disrepair?

ComicGeek · 9 August 2018 at 12:03PM

Well, I have sympathy here having had to make 20 minute diversions each way this morning due to an A road closure close to our house. It's been closed for a week now, with no sign of any workmen or progress - I can see it all while working in my office upstairs. It's great when I'm heading south, but at least 20 minutes extra each way heading north. That's mainly because all of the HGV traffic ignore all of the road closure signs and then try and squeeze down single lane country tracks - yesterday it took me over an hour extra because 2 lorries got stuck.

I don't mind if they were actually doing some work, but there's been no-one there at all since Saturday. The actual signposted diversion route for HGV traffic is over 20 miles as there really isn't another viable road in the area.

Oh, and the reason is because they cracked a major water pipe while resurfacing a road that they had already resurfaced and mucked up a few months earlier - and had cracked the same pipe then as well which shut the road for 4 days!!! Absolute idiots!!!