Funding for urgent Anlaby Road flyover work
URGENT work on the Anlaby Road flyover is set to start towards the end of the year.
The Department for Transport has announced £1.816m has been granted for the £2.594m structural maintenance work scheme.
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Urgent work on the Anlaby flyover in Hull is set to start
It is one of 10 schemes which will share £25m – the first allocation of a fund which aims to remove bottlenecks.
Work may not be completed until October 2015.
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Councillor Martin Mancey, Hull City Council's portfolio holder for transport, has recently warned that buses will be banned from using the flyover if urgent repairs aren't carried out soon.
Among the other projects to benefit is the A614 Airmyn Road in the East Riding. The project has received £1m towards the £1.581m scheme to go towards the construction of a new five-arm roundabout at the staggered crossroad between the A614 Airmyn Road and Glews Garage in Goole.
Work is due to start in October, this year, and be completed by April 2014.
Transport secretary, Patrick McLoughlin, said: "Tackling bottlenecks on the highway network will help get the country moving and the economy growing.
"I want to see this work underway and shovels in the ground as soon as possible, so today I am announcing £25m to fast track the first 10 schemes."
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by killer127
Saturday, March 23 2013, 12:45PM
“Jeff Norris, it doesnt matter who paid for the swing bridge to nowhere, its just typical of the lack of joined up thinking within the ivory towers of power.. Just like the plan for an Orchard Park fishing pond, or plans to purchase and demolish buildings on Anlaby road, surely repairs to one of the Cities major transport routes must be a priority, its not as if they havent known about the problem..Will it take concrete falling off the flyover and landing on a train to shake them into action?”
by jeff_Norris
Friday, March 22 2013, 6:27PM
“Killer127
Grow up you know as well as I do it isn't the council that built that bridge, look it up!”
by beckster07
Friday, March 22 2013, 6:01PM
“7 million would have built an underpass and repaired scott street bridge instead we have a bridge that does not swing and when it does it properly wont reach the other side....”
by vanityunfair
Friday, March 22 2013, 5:32PM
“I seem to remember that the problem this time is with the pillars. http://tinyurl.com/c5dfpwy Perhaps this time the repairs can be carried out from underneath without disruption to traffic. Is there a civil engineer out there who can comment on this?
In the meantime would it be possible to allow cyclists behind the concrete fence? This would allow those who presently wobble uphill to do so in less danger. The problem is with the bus stops and buses having to cross the cycle lane but that is already the case.”
by killer127
Friday, March 22 2013, 5:19PM
“Just think, if the council hadnt spent £7m on a footbridge to nowhere they could have repaired the flyover and still had change for something else..”
by Jim_Royle
Friday, March 22 2013, 4:47PM
“hmmm... "set to start towards the end of the year". I'm guessing around early October. Hull Fair week. Urgent?! My A***!”
by VaultHunter
Friday, March 22 2013, 3:15PM
“Oh goody, yet more work on the flyover. No doubt this will coincide with Hull Fair so as to give commuters a more interesting journey home along Spring Bank and Anlaby Road.”
by VicMay
Friday, March 22 2013, 3:07PM
“So when the Lib Dems were in power and they had that £100,000,000 windfall, why didn't some of it go on the flyovers? Where did it all go?”
by goldenspecial
Friday, March 22 2013, 2:44PM
“2.59 million pounds of maintenance required which no doubt will go over budget,plus what was spent a couple of years ago when repair work dragged on for 8 months. Surely it's cheaper to build something from scratch or even return to a level crossing?”
by bulldog60
Friday, March 22 2013, 2:36PM
“another "numty" so the transport secretary want to tackle bottlenecks , hummm so get on with castle st then”