David Walker measuring traffic speed in Whittington and West Felton
Catch up with all the latest news to do with roads in Shropshire and Whittington Division in particular. From speeding through to potholes, roads maintenance, road closures, to issues about road signs, street lights and street furniture.
Shropshire has the largest inland county in England with 6,500km of roads. Yet the roads look like the moon thanks to a resurfacing rate is 0.06%. In 2021 Shropshire Council will be spending £0.5m over 4km or 0.06% of the road network. By contrast, they are spending £2.5m to paper over the crack with clippings (surface dressing) over 91km or 1.4% of our road network. See Potty Council
Dangerous Pothole on Station Road, Whittington
I have already reported on how the roads continue to fall apart despite Shropshire Council shelling out £1,000 a day for a ‘pothole’ consultant to help deal with a pothole… Read More »Little return for £240k FTE consultant
Road closure on Boot Street, Whittington for surface dressing works. The road closure will be from the 6th of November to the 12th of November between 09:30 & 16:00 each… Read More »Boot Street Road Closure
The B5009 will be closed from Wootton to Queens Head from the 11th to the 13th of November for surface dressing. Kier is carrying out the work on behalf of… Read More »B5009 Queens Head Road Closure in November
Shropshire’s pothole shambles doesn’t look like it will be ending any time soon. For the last few months since the new year, Shropshire Council has been using a ‘£1,000 a… Read More »Pothole shambles rumbles on
Here is a summary of the scheduled road works that are due to take place in August that will impact Whittington and West Felton Road Closure: Twmpath Lane, Gobowen 3rd… Read More »August roadworks
There are two road closures for July impacting Whittington Division. An overnight road closure on the A5 between Four Crosses roundabout and Whittington Roundabout, and Tedsmore Lakes road closure for… Read More »Road closures planned for July 2020
Let me tell you a tale of two signs. Two ordinary road signs. One thing that always bugs me is inconsistency. As a colleague once said the hardest thing about… Read More »A tale of two signs
Highways England are going to be closing the A5 from Queens Head to Gledrid roundabout for 2 weeks from the end of September. The roadworks are combining two separate projects… Read More »A5 Queens Head to Gledrid roundabout combined nighttime closure
As many people will be aware, but worth repeating for those that don’t, Whittington level crossing closure is happening from the 30th of August to the 9th of September. This… Read More »Whittington level crossing closure
I am pleased to see the Top Street road safety planning application has been rejected, particularly as I helped Top Street residents frame their objections to the scheme. Oswestry and… Read More »Top Street road safety scheme rejected
