Buses face ban from Hull's 'crumbling' Anlaby Road flyover
BUSES will have to be banned from using Anlaby Road flyover if urgent repairs are not carried out on the crumbling structure, according to Hull's transport boss.
Hull City Council has applied for a £1.8m grant from the Department for Transport to pay for the repair work.
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Worn out: A bus on the Anlaby Road flyover and, right, a crumbling column
Councillor Martin Mancey, the local authority's portfolio holder for transport, says he has made clear in the bid that the repairs are essential.
He said: "Bits of concrete are already dropping off the columns that support the road – one of Hull's main highways.
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"We don't want to be alarmist – the flyover is not about to collapse any moment.
"But if we do nothing, we would have to apply weight restrictions onto the flyover, which would mean buses not being able to travel down Anlaby Road and you can imagine the disruption that would cause."
The west Hull flyover, close to the KC Stadium, was built in 1965 and is one of the city's key access roads.
Cllr Mancey said he is confident the council's bid meets the criteria for a slice of central Government cash.
He said: "This pot of cash we are looking to tap into is to address what it calls 'pinch points' – effectively, projects to keep traffic moving. Clearly, if we have to place weight restrictions on Anlaby Road, thereby preventing its use by buses and delivery trucks, significant problems will arise."
If the bid is successful, the council would contribute £700,000, and work would start later this year, before winter.
"When you are working with concrete you ideally need warmer conditions," he said. "So work would have to be started before the end of the summer."
Civil engineers recently inspected the flyover, said Cllr Mancey.
"We plan to resurface the road too, but the most costly part of the project will be repairing the concrete supports," he said.
Even if the Guildhall is not successful in its bid, repair work will still go ahead, but at a much slower rate.
Cllr Mancey said: "If the bid is not successful, it would be another pressure for this council, already running on limited resources.
"In terms of the repairs to Anlaby Road flyover, it would then be a slow process.
"If we took £2m out of the budget, it would have a significant impact on other projects, so the work would have to be carried out over three or four years."
Cllr Mancey said, due to the nature of the work, he expected repairs to be carried out in daylight hours. However, he said disruption would be kept to a minimum.
"Traffic might be down to one lane," said Cllr Mancey. "But we would expect nothing like the level of disruption seen with the work in Priory Road."
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by gassetta
Tuesday, March 12 2013, 4:40PM
“grammar police at it again, get a life !”
by hcfchcfc08
Monday, March 11 2013, 7:17AM
“@Kinnison.
You wrote, 'and I'd never employ them as a news editor if their english was that bad', while criticising the news editor and you write 'english' with lower case 'e'. What size of glass house do you live in?”
by bohage
Sunday, March 10 2013, 5:54PM
“i reckon they should knock the flyover down and put in a train crossing under where the flyover is.”
by Donna_Kebab1
Sunday, March 10 2013, 2:49PM
“VicMay, strange you should blame the Lib Dems and the Tories when this city has been controlled by the Labour party since 1934 except for 2 years of Tory rule and 3 years of Lib Dems with a majority in the council other times they where a minority Administration.
Now lets be honest Labour have had since then to get everything perfect so what went wrong in the 79 years less the 5 years other bodies were fully in charge. I mean are we living in Shangri-la or Nirvana I mean the streets have been paved with gold and everyone has a good standard of living because octogenerians like Councillor Geraghty are fighting the good fight well tell that to the good people of Anlaby road who have had both their libraries knicked.”
by Kinnison
Sunday, March 10 2013, 2:48PM
“What DOES annoy me (yes capitals I know) is when the news editor of the story spells things wrongly or uses bad grammar - they should know better - and I'd never employ them as a news editor if their english was that bad.”
by Kinnison
Sunday, March 10 2013, 2:43PM
“Lol - profanity - it's the "thats years away" - which obviously needs an apostrophe that I would have picked up (the other spelling mistake was obvioiusly just a simple typo) - but tbh I've pretty much given up on telling people about their spelling and grammar mistakes on here - it would take forever...”
by MOGRAT
Sunday, March 10 2013, 1:36PM
“This idiotic council made it worse by putting all that unnecessary weight on the bridge by installing those stupid concrete blocks when they narrowed the lanes off. Not that long ago either. Maybe they should have spent the money on repairing it first??”
by profanity
Sunday, March 10 2013, 1:30PM
“For all other pedants like me - that should have been "but hey". And I do love my CAPITAL LETTERS DONT I?”
by profanity
Sunday, March 10 2013, 1:27PM
“The Hull Royal Infirmary has suffered the same fate.
Governments of whatever hue have failed to invest in maintenance - preferring to invest in more headline-grabbing expenditure such as Schools for the Uneducatable, Council Houses for Pigs, armaments to keep squaddies employed and exquisite Offices for Government Employees.
HRI now needs a complete overhaul because steel reinforcement is rotting due to poor maintenance. Anlaby Road Flyover and most motorway Bridges have the same disease. If another few quid had been spent on STAINLESS STEEL re-inforcement on day one OR, God Forbid, a regular regime of TLC carried out, we tax payers wouldn't be suffering now.
We apathetic plebs are the problem - you wouldn't find the French putting up with incompetence of this magnitude.
PFI will be the next bombshell - buy hey; thats years away and that's all that matters. As long as it's not in this Parliament/Council Election period.”
by David_Nivea
Sunday, March 10 2013, 12:39PM
“Surely the weight of non-bus traffic during a 24-hr period far exceeds that of the buses? Guessing that a bus weighs 15 tons. Bus operators suffering from the aggregate effects of private motorists flies in the face of any Green notions.
Perhaps the bridge should restricted to buses & cycles only?”