Delays warning over A64 works (From York Press)
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Delays warning over works on A64 between Bilbrough and Tadcaster
9:46am Friday 8th March 2013 in News
SAFETY improvements will get under way on the A64 between Bilbrough and Tadcaster next week.
Work will include installing high-visibility road studs, renewing road markings and clearing vegetation.
The work will take place between Monday and Saturday. To minimise disruption to drivers, the work will take place overnight from 8pm to 6am.
Steven Wright, Highways Agency project manager, said: “While this work is being carried out we advise road users to plan their journeys to avoid delays. We encourage all drivers to drive carefully along the diversion route, keeping within the speed limit, and concentrating on the road ahead."
During the work the westbound A64 will be closed between Bilbrough Top and Headley Bar. Signed diversion routes will be in place. Traffic will be diverted along the A1237 (York Ring Road), then onto the A59 to join the A1(M) where traffic will travel south to rejoin the A64 at Bramham.
Comments(10)
bob the builder
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11:07am Fri 8 Mar 13
YorkPatrol
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1:45pm Fri 8 Mar 13
Garrowby Turnoff wrote:What do you propose then?
It's a heck of a long diversion!
Guy Fawkes
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1:53pm Fri 8 Mar 13
But in any event, this is likely to be hell on wheels, even in the late evening. Trying to force all the displaced traffic from the A64 (dual carriageway stretch) onto that single carriageway bit of the A59 from the A1, through Kirk Hammerton and terminating in a ring road roundabout which is a congestion blackspot even without roadworks ... yikes.
Oh well, at least I have an incentive not to work too late next week!
Pete the Brickie
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4:00pm Fri 8 Mar 13
YorkPatrol wrote:Come off at Bilborough top, take Colton lane, then Old road, then Oxton lane into Tadcaster, through Tadcaster and out at the other side of the roadworks. They could use that route for Westbound Traffic and through Tad then Wighill and back to Bilborough for Eastbound at night to save people a thirty mile detour.
Garrowby Turnoff wrote:What do you propose then?
It's a heck of a long diversion!
Willy Eckerslike
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6:13pm Fri 8 Mar 13
Guy Fawkes
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6:36pm Fri 8 Mar 13
Willy Eckerslike wrote:The official diversion does, at any rate. The bottom line here is that there are a number of alternative options (besides buggery, as proposed by Garrowby Turnoff) if you're confident about navigating them and are not driving an artic or a double-decker bus. If you're not and/or you are, then you're probably best off taking the detour up to Harrogate and then back down again.
When an "A" road is closed the diversion has to be along other "A" roads, to accommodate the type of traffic that uses the temporarily closed road. That is the law.
Fourkov
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7:48pm Fri 8 Mar 13
Garrowby Turnoff
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11:29pm Fri 8 Mar 13
Guy Fawkes wrote:How amazing Press censorship is still so naive as to take notice of some prudish southern tosser on here who objected to a good old Yorkshire phrase. Job's buggered...
Willy Eckerslike wrote:The official diversion does, at any rate. The bottom line here is that there are a number of alternative options (besides buggery, as proposed by Garrowby Turnoff) if you're confident about navigating them and are not driving an artic or a double-decker bus. If you're not and/or you are, then you're probably best off taking the detour up to Harrogate and then back down again.
When an "A" road is closed the diversion has to be along other "A" roads, to accommodate the type of traffic that uses the temporarily closed road. That is the law.
Magicman!
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4:01am Sat 9 Mar 13
Garrowby Turnoff says...
10:00am Fri 8 Mar 13