Who "owns" the roads?

[upsidedown]

Part of my commute is along a dual carriageway, 60mph limit. There's a decent enough path along the side, never any pedestrians as it's quite rural. It's a bit overgrown, and most importantly stops for a couple of miles forcing you to mix it with 60 - 80 + mph traffic. There are regularly fatal crashes on there so not a nice place to be.

I know it would be a complete waste of time, but who would i contact about joining the bits up and getting it tidied up? Is it Highways or council?

If it were tidied up it would provide a great link between Stourbridge and Bromsgrove, avoiding the very hilly Clent villages.

As i said, probably a waste of time, but you never know.

 

[dondare]

Contact the local council, your MP, the CTC and any local cycling group or DA.

 

[dondare]

Oh, and since it's "The Queen's Highway", perhaps you should copy Maj in as well.

 

[Pip]

"Who owns the road?"........

Joint ownership by Mercedes and BMW drivers isn't it?! ;-)

Seriously though, the highways department of your local council deals with these things I think.

 

[G_MAN]

Someone better let taxi drivers know then because they seem to think they own the roads.

 

[marinyork]

It'll be the council or if it's a very major road it'll be the Highways Agency. There are other paths like this elsewhere on dual carriageways but I think with the low volume of people using them they're just left to rot and other things - not published on maps etc.

 

[hackbike 6]

Someone better let taxi drivers know then because they seem to think they own the roads.

How rude.

 

[joebe]

"Who owns the road?"........

Joint ownership by Mercedes and BMW drivers isn't it?! ;-)

Seriously though, the highways department of your local council deals with these things I think.

Really people, need you ask....... I do!!

 

[byegad]

A vote for bus drivers here they certainly act as if it's theirs.

 

[domd1979]

Highways Agency if its a trunk road or the County Council if not. HA are generally a waste of space.

I know it would be a complete waste of time, but who would i contact about joining the bits up and getting it tidied up? Is it Highways or council?
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[domtyler]

You might be surprised, if you devote some time to chasing people up you may just get a decent result out of it.

 

[domd1979]

Might be useful:

http://worcestershire.whub.org.uk/home/wccindex/wcc-ht-highways-report-it.htm