At Thursday night’s Annual Parish Council meeting, the problems of our “temporary” traffic lights were discussed at length.
These first set of lights going towards Ashbourne but after Bradbourne Mill – the road should be sorted by late summer.
As for the second set of lights nearer to Bentley Brook, there is no timescale as to when reconstruction will take place.
It was acknowledged that the lights are often faulty, which could lead to a serious accident – so can we all start reporting these faults.
PC Ian Cooper said that after every report, the police will check the lights and then the contractor will go out and readjust the lights.
Please only report them if they are faulty, and not just if you think they are too slow at turning green. That way, maybe we will end up with reliable lights – but this is obviously going to be a long term issue.
Please ring the Call Derbyshire number: 08456 058 058 or 01629 760247. The County Council call centre staff with then get someone to look at the issue. The same number can be used for potholes and icy roads.
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Does anybody else feel as concerned as I do at the rate at which the road is slipping at the temporary traffic lights by the Bentley Brook?
The road sinks further week by week and the fissure gets wider and wider. It seems to me that there is a serious risk that the road may be closed if a further substantial movement occurs. This would cause severe inconvenience to all Parwichians as well as those who use the B5056.
Leaving the road to deteriorate in my opinion is likely to cost the Council (us!) far more money and may cause serious disruption. A stitch in time……
Totally agree Mike. I don’t understand what is happening. I think there is a really serious risk now of the road collapsing while someone is driving over it. It is most likely to be a wagon (on the basis that 1 HGV passage is equivalent to approx. 10,000 cars), so all drivers must beware, but particularly the lorry drivers.
This road is a key link, and it’s about time the Highway Authority took control and did something positive to restore it properly.
In the event of a catastrophy, there is plenty of evidence to support a negligence claim here.
OK, here’s an idea. If one of our photographers could take some photos of the state of the road by the Bentley Brook, we can put together a blog post about it, and hopefully raise awareness of the problem. How about that?
Good idea. I will pass that way this afternoon. As long as I survive the crossing I’ll get some ‘photographic evidence’.
I wonder whether Longcliffe and Tarmac would be interested in lobbying the council because their lorries must by the ones most likely to fall off the road – they would also be affected financially if the road were to be closed and all those lorries had to go the long way round.