Another T Bone Rta At Meadowhead Junction!

[Planner1]

4 hours ago, bassett one said:

i fully agree ,with 2 accidents in the last 2 weeks a lone ,tells you its bad,well done richard,he works non-stop to help local people fight for justice 

Well if you follow the link in the post above and read the information, you’ll see that it’s 29th in the prioritised list of locations where collisions are occurring, so maybe not that bad on the grand scale of things. 
 

The Council would tend to be most interested in collisions which involve someone being killed or seriously injured (KSI’s) and there have only been 4 serious injuries out of all the reported ones ( which doesn’t include non injury collisions as they aren’t reportable).

 

Much as I applaud local “activists” ( who are often prospective opposition candidates at local elections) for doing something for their community, you have to understand that what they do is politically motivated, so them being seen in the media pointing fingers at things the current administration has done isn’t uncommon. It’s what they do.

 

In my very long career in local government, I can’t think of an occasion where something has been done just because it was brought to officers attention by a prospective opposition candidate. Usually it amounts to the “activist/candidate” passing on to the officers the letters/emails they’ve received from local people, and asking them for a response. The officers have usually received these messages anyway. The officers send a response and the “activist/candidate” claims the glory for getting something done. It’s the nature of local politics.

[Bargepole23]

19 minutes ago, Planner1 said:

It isn’t uncommon for the “agreed design” to be varied to suit site conditions once construction has started, so I wouldn’t read much into that statement.

But there should be a document trail agreeing those design changes, presumably they aren't just made ad-hoc by site workers? And presumably whatever drawings and docs exist are updated to as-built after sitework is completed?

[Planner1]

34 minutes ago, Bargepole23 said:

But there should be a document trail agreeing those design changes, presumably they aren't just made ad-hoc by site workers? And presumably whatever drawings and docs exist are updated to as-built after sitework is completed?

Yes, of course, it should all be documented.

[Meltman]

6 minutes ago, Planner1 said:

Yes, of course, it should all be documented.

In that case I repeat....someone should be accountable for the changes, whatever the reason, and I guess the responsible person's name will be on the document. 

[Planner1]

19 minutes ago, Meltman said:

In that case I repeat....someone should be accountable for the changes, whatever the reason, and I guess the responsible person's name will be on the document. 

Yes, but no one has said that there was anything negative about whatever change was made, only that it wasn’t done to the “agreed” design, whatever that was.

 

I’ve seen scenarios where someone has seen a version of the design and incorrectly assumed that it would be built that way. 
 

The person who posted on social media didn’t actually say what change they felt had been made, which in itself leads me to suspect the change may not have been significant.

[northernboy]

Just to point out that Richard Shaw is a councillor (and has been since 2014), not a “prospective opposition candidate”.

[bassett one]

richard shaw is a top class councillor and works hard in his area.plus hes got a while until he comes up for election

[Planner1]

5 hours ago, northernboy said:

Just to point out that Richard Shaw is a councillor (and has been since 2014), not a “prospective opposition candidate”.

Just to point out that I said it was often potential opposition candidates, I wasn’t specific about that one. 
 

It’s the same point with Councillors. When taking an issue up directly with the council, people often copy in their councillor or write to them too, so more often than not, by the time the councillor contacts the officers, they already know about the issue.

[bassett one]

lady who lives next to the junction has reported 37 accidents in 2021 and 4 up to now in 2022,even if many are minor its to many is it not?

[Sneakerfreak]

There was a big accident there last night too - blue BMW and white SUV head on - both looked to be write offs. Sat 5th approx 17:20