People will know this is genuinely one of my pet hates about living in this area - I honestly don't know of another locality which has 'suffered' so much from roadworks over the last few years. If it isn't Thames Water and their pipes it's TfL/LBH implementing some scheme or a statutory undertaker carrying out some 'emergency' work.  Rarely does it seem to be directly related to the implementation of a new development etc. I doubt there's any legal/statutory requirement to do so, thus why it seems there's a lack of a coordinated approach, with any number of roadworks going on within close proximity to one another. I mean, at the moment you've got the work on the A316 referred to in Vanessa's post, the traffic lights on Brentford High Street/closure of Half Acre, and the BT work on Kew Bridge (which I am unclear whether or not it has actually started or when it starts). Indeed my last point touches upon one of my other gripes - what's the point of having all this digital warning signs if the information displayed is wrong or unclear ?.  The warning sign heading into Brentford on the A315 clearly states that the work will take place "May & July" not "May - July", so taken at face value that implies that there'll be no roadworks in Brentford in June.  Whereas the warning sign on the A205 approaching Chalkers Corner from Sheen (which has already been there a week) gives absolutely no indication about when the BT work on Kew Bridge is actually starting, how long its scheduled to last etc.  Plain dumb.

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Topic	Date Posted	Posted By
endless road works	21/06/11 08:28:00	Alan Clark
Re:endless road works	21/06/11 12:21:00	Vanessa Smith
Re:Re:endless road works	21/06/11 16:11:00	Adam Beamish
Re:endless road works	24/06/11 11:30:00	Maria Isabel Cunha
Re:Re:endless road works	24/06/11 11:56:00	Adam Beamish
Re:Re:Re:endless road works	24/06/11 13:00:00	Anthony Waller
Re:Re:Re:endless road works	24/06/11 13:47:00	Alan Clark
Re:Re:Re:endless road works	24/06/11 14:24:00	Vanessa Smith
Re:Re:Re:Re:endless road works	28/06/11 18:06:00	Ken Collins

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