Newsbot Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 Eight months of construction work is due to start in the Isle of Man to help improve a road junction on the island. Source : http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/...man/6966274.stm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempus Fugit Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 you could build 10 miles of 6-lane motorway in 8 months ! I cannot understand why they don't make one huge roundabout by adding a bridge across behind the red brick house ( I believe they own the house ?). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerryMcCann Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 It will take much less than 8 months. Then when complete the DoT will come out and say how dedicated it's team are in getting such a big project completed early* *see also Windy Corner, Brandish, Johnny Watterson's Lane etc for similar achievements Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitro Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 I don't know why the don't just use traffic lights...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerryMcCann Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 I don't know why the don't just use traffic lights...... We'll have less of that talk. It is roundabouts or nothing on the IoM, after all local motorists are able to use them with such ease Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Tatlock Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 "Time for another DoT strategy meeting" said Zeberdee. "Hey man! I come up with several new wacked out spaced-out weird ideas and a new roundabout song this weekend. Just give me a shovel, 707 good men...and I'll see you in 8 months", said Dylan. "Oh f**king Boing!" said Zeberdee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gladys Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 As someone wisely pointed out on another thread, we should all welcome this initiative as it will deliver drivers to the headache that is the QB so much more quickly. In the 80's there was some scurrilous chat going around about how the DOT did their road planning over coffee. They would spread out the plans and hum and ha, but when they took their coffee cups off the plans, almost by divine intervention there was the answer, roundabouts, everywhere, with a coffee tint! Nowt's changed. How about this for a thought? When planning a major development, such as a housing estate, or, just as an example, a hospital, they factor in traffic management at the early stage and even build it before construction is underway? Radical, I know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grant Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 That's called planning ahead! I think they're worried that when they remove the 2 roundabouts at the QB, (and replace it with one big one) the traffic flow might be improved.......therefore, build 2 more as soon as possible, just to slow it down again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frances Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 I guess you have driven around Basingstoke - in the 80's roundabouts were 'the answer'. In many ways the DOT is stuck - the whole section Peel Road, QB and Braddan needs modernisation but you cannot alter the TT course (quite why I don't know - after all it is purely an arbitary choice of road made some 90years ago - a race could still be a race even if the course was slightly altered) - thus the disused railway line cannot be merged into the normal road system (as would have been done elsewhere) and we can't get a large QB roundabout that would more easily allow the two key routes to cross each other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slinkydevil Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grant Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 That's the turkey! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macmannin Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 I guess you have driven around Basingstoke - in the 80's roundabouts were 'the answer'. In many ways the DOT is stuck - the whole section Peel Road, QB and Braddan needs modernisation but you cannot alter the TT course (quite why I don't know - after all it is purely an arbitary choice of road made some 90years ago - a race could still be a race even if the course was slightly altered) - thus the disused railway line cannot be merged into the normal road system (as would have been done elsewhere) and we can't get a large QB roundabout that would more easily allow the two key routes to cross each other. Frances,your always quoting England as solutions for problems over here.Take the blinkers off and realise that england is a big shithole,if it was that great why is the island infested with know it alls like yourself? The answer to traffic problems is less cars....simple Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Tatlock Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 As this is the major junction for entering Douglas from South, West and North - I quite like the idea (I think that was mentioned earlier) of widening the road to include the TT access road. 5 ft crash barriers could be erected during TT - and sat in preset holes in the road so that the access road could be 'separated' and used during racing. A four lane solution would allow traffic (coming down from the hospital to filter into one lane) and speed up traffic flow in/out of Douglas. Widening the QB where feasible - ideally with a lane that allows cars coming from the North to filter left onto Peel Road without having to give way and a similar lane for traffic turning south from Peel Road. Though, obviously the best solution is free buses and less cars, yellow school buses, and changing school start times etc. etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Chip Hazzard Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 Doh - the DoT will not be happy until every junction on the island is massive roundabout, even the ones in the middle of nowhere... It's a small island not blooodyMilton Keynes (the capital of roundabouts) I agree, less cars - lets get walking people Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frances Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 Frances,your always quoting England as solutions for problems over here.Take the blinkers off and realise that england is a big shithole,if it was that great why is the island infested with know it alls like yourself?The answer to traffic problems is less cars....simple I use other examples as well - maybe France is also the large pile of Merde as well ? - and how do you get rid of cars ? - tax them? require the likes of Stu Peters to give up them up as an example to the rest? - I make extensive use of the bus system but still need a car for evenings, Sundays etc and to reach places not served by the Bus. For some 25 years whilst teaching I didn't have a car as all my professional life (+ most entertainment) was in London and I bought a house within walking distance of the station and Universities at which I worked - though I know of a few other similar car-less academics such becomes very difficult once you have a young family. Maybe moving more jobs out to Peel and Ramsey would help - maybe taxing the provision of car-parking spaces in Douglas ? Though I will get berated again maybe a similar road-use charge like London's congestion charge (very expensive to administer but made a vast difference to London) or maybe Cambridge's system which virtually bans cars from the centre - I'm old enough to rember Douglas when there was no rush hour but those days are gone (they also corresponded to the time when there was virtaully no jobs most of the year) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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