Bristol to Bath cycle path closure

[the_mikey]

I wasn't born in Sodbury but raised & educated there !

Sodbury Rocks

Yate Rocks

 

[BigAl68]

Well back to the topic. The sign fishponds end this morning is now showing closed for 22 weeks!

To be honest that was the worst journey to work in a few years. Double puncture front and rear, front lights died as had been using it in my mouth when fixing the the bike and then my spare led light was flat so cycled slowly with no lights for the last 5 miles.

 

[summerdays]

Well back to the topic. The sign fishponds end this morning is now showing closed for 22 weeks!

To be honest that was the worst journey to work in a few years. Double puncture front and rear, front lights died as had been using it in my mouth when fixing the the bike and then my spare led light was flat so cycled slowly with no lights for the last 5 miles.

on more than one count!

I've just come round the ring road, to the East of the M32 is clear (well not of traffic), but to the west of it is pea soup - though lots of cars seem to have run out of batteries to power their lights too

 

[bmanns]

Well that's it for me and cycling for some time. I'm not the most confident of cyclists but I was able to live with cycling on the road for around 8 weeks. But 22 weeks? Absolutely disgraceful from the council/builders. How can you be around 300% over deadline? Absolutely disgraceful. I cannot put in to words how angry I am (without being banned). Absolute joke. The council and building staff should hang their heads in shame. The fact is it won't be 22 weeks either - it could well be years. 8 weeks was clearly a number plucked out of thin air and 22 weeks is bound to be also. I will be truly amazed if it is open before June/July 2015.

 

[BigAl68]

I have just come of the line with the engineer from South Glos. Yes 22 weeks is the current plan as they discovered last Friday that the agents carrying out the work have discovered issues. A press statement is due out on Monday.

I had him on the phone for 10 minutes asking about the poor diversions, the lack of communication etc and he was somewhat embarrassed about the whole thing.

 

[summerdays]

Oh drat!

So when does 22 weeks take us to?

 

[Spartak]

Just cycled to the Mango side & taken this photo !

35 weeks !!! From 1/9/14

 

[summerdays]

Just calculated 35 weeks from 1/9 takes us to about 1st May!!!!! Mind you they didn't close the path in September, so lets hope work can continue without the path being closed.

You would think in this day and age you would be able to build bridges whilst maintaining a safe route underneath at least some of the time.

 

[BigAl68]

I asked the engineer at the council the same. I also asked how this squares with theirs and Bristol cc green and cycling agenda. I think he did sound sympathetic but could offer no answers.

 

[bmanns]

Summerdays makes a great point to be honest.

They'll argue health & safety; but I'd hazard a guess more accidents (deaths?) may come as a result of forcing uncomfortable cyclists down stupidly dangerous roads and diversions for an additional 20 or so weeks.

Ridiculous.

 

[summerdays]

Ok I've asked someone and have got a suggestion of March, though that's still 4 months away!

 

[BigAl68]

The engineer at south Gloucestershire said March but couldn't confirm. He also wouldn't tell me the issue they have found but it would be covered in Mondays press release..... I miss the tunnel

 

[summerdays]

Apart from anything at this time of year you get the weird experiences of the tunnel being warmer than outside sometimes, and rarely a weird light/mist effect.

 

[captain nemo1701]

Ok I've just seen this on Facebook:
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Is the Mango tunnel the same? (Never heard it called that), the date due to reopen fits.

That's Council engineers for you....always messing up time calculations

 

[bmanns]

I haven't seen any further reporting of this? You'd have hoped the papers and media would have been all over it due to the shockingly bad estimate they originally provided?