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Road misery as work on Brighton bridge begins
9:46am Wednesday 23rd January 2008
Comments (7)Drivers face weeks of delays as work to strengthen a railway bridge is carried out.
Engineers will be at Chatham Place bridge between Preston Circus and Seven Dials in Brighton from this coming Monday.
The news comes as motorists continue to deal with diversions and delays while other major roadworks are carried out in the city.
Areas affected at the moment include the seafront, West Street and Middle Street in Brighton and Alice Street and Church Road in Hove.
Business leaders have already spoken of their concerns about the amount of roadworks planned for the city this year.
Although they accept the work needs to be done, such as Southern Water's continuing work to upgrade its sewers, they believe having so many locations around the city undergoing repairs at the same time is putting people under increasing pressure.
The bridge work was due to start earlier this month but was rescheduled to tie in with footway work being carried out by Network Rail.
The bridge carries the B2122 over the Brighton to Littlehampton railway line.
As well as repairs to the bridge, a new kerbside barrier, comprising high kerbs and guard rails, is to be installed on the north side.
These will be fixed to a reinforced concrete beam that will be cast into the bridge deck.
The barrier will prevent vehicles from going on to the footway, a weak part of the structure.
Network Rail is planning to replace fractured supports beneath the northern footway.
Brighton and Hove City Council says combining the two projects will mean the work will be done more quickly and motorists will face less delays.
During the work the road will remain open but will be reduced to a single lane and alternate one-way traffic flows will be controlled by temporary signals.
The northern footway over the bridge will be closed but the southern one will stay open at all times.
Council environment committee chairman Geoffrey Theobald, said: We are pleased to be able to co-ordinate our work with that of Network Rail.
"The existing footway is currently protected by temporary concrete barriers and these will be removed when the new kerbside barrier is installed.
"Railway journeys will not be affected."
The work is expected to take six weeks to finish.
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Dave, Brighton says...
11:17am Wed 23 Jan 08
The entire country is being dug up between now and May as managers have to use their budget or "lose it" (e.g. drop down the pecking order).
Same every year.
Plus, it is worthless expending any energy on your experience as a road user as Brighton operates an anti-car policy.
Best thing you can do, is buy an automatic 4x4, with a decent stereo which runs on LPG.
bob, lewes says...
11:31am Wed 23 Jan 08
I would rather not become a tosser..thanks all the same..
Dave, Brighton says...
11:33am Wed 23 Jan 08
you behave like one
Obvious, Brighton says...
12:31pm Wed 23 Jan 08
Dave wrote:Oh, the irony!
bob, you behave like one
Keith, Peacehaven says...
5:13pm Wed 23 Jan 08
S, Sussex says...
12:54am Thu 24 Jan 08
Keith wrote:Well, Peacehaven had to get electricity eventually I suppose, and better late than not at all, eh?
Here in Peacehaven, we had part of Seaview Avenue resurfaced in December 2007. Within 4 weeks, it has already been dug up to install some electric cabling.
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jo, brighton says...
10:56am Wed 23 Jan 08
Anyone know a bit of brighton/hove where there's NO roadworks? Might go and drive there just for the novel experience.
And spare me the "take a bus then" comments, because buses are affected by roadworks too. Seems our council is only too happy to give contractors licence to rip our roads up, and a private company (B&H buses) a monopoly on the roads which could be used as alternatives.