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A19 blocked after flooding
7:41am Monday 8th September 2008
FLOODING from Germany Beck closed the A19 from York to Selby at Fulford last night.
City of York Council closed the road at about 9pm, putting diversions in place until further notice.
A spokeswoman for the council said it hoped to have the road reopened as soon as possible, but until then traffic entering the city from the A64 would have to use alternate routes in from the ring road.
She said: “We have closed the road as a precaution due to the rising floodwaters. At the minute some people are still trying to drive through the water and we would advise them against it because they will be worse off if they get stuck.”
She said roadworks on Nunnery Lane would be removed this morning to ease possible rush-hour congestion.
Meanwhile, homes were sandbagged in Tower Street and Peckitt Street, York, using 12 tonnes of sand to try to hold back the swollen River Ouse.
The river level reached 3.99m above normal at 9am yesterday morning and was expected to rise to approximately 4.5m earlier this morning.
A number of temporary defence works were deployed to protect local businesses and properties.
The Aqua Barrier at Clementhorpe was erected and sandbags and pumps were put in place at a number of locations including Peckitt Street, Tower Place and Tower Gardens.
St George’s Field car park was closed due to the floods.
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Fred Bloggs, York says...
8:57am Mon 8 Sep 08
jojo, York says...
9:14am Mon 8 Sep 08
It seems to me that with this being an event we have to get used to, we should only be building on land above flood level in the future. Filling the flooded area with concrete will only send the water elsewhere to flood other areas.
KarenWhite1978, Heslington says...
9:50am Mon 8 Sep 08
mztripps, says...
10:05am Mon 8 Sep 08
pedalling paul , York says...
10:54am Mon 8 Sep 08
KarenWhite1978, Heslington says...
1:02pm Mon 8 Sep 08
pedalling paul wrote:Yeah thanks for the lecture. I personally took advantage of those nice empty bus lanes for a smooth journey through the congestion. The lack of an idling engine probably assisted the fight against "global warming".
Bus lanes are intended to give artificial priority to public transport, and help their journey times become more competitive with the private car. That's the real cure for congestion, rather than opening up these lanes to every car owning idiot who believes that their ownership of a vehicle entitles them to rule the transport roost.
old_geezer, york says...
1:54pm Mon 8 Sep 08
DILLIGAF, York says...
3:21pm Mon 8 Sep 08
Son of Amigo, York says...
4:08pm Mon 8 Sep 08
old_geezer wrote:I think the point was only during the flooding which cocked up the flow of traffic more than normal.
Karen: you deserve a lecture. You deserve criticism. Here's some more: please don't break the law, and please think about what happens when everyone else follows your selfish example. The fact that a bus lane is empty does not mean it's a good idea for you to use it (think hard about that one, work it through). And think about how much quicker we'd all be if everone used buses. I cycle.
As for the Developers at Germany Beck should float off out of it....
sensationalism, Fulford says...
7:06pm Mon 8 Sep 08
Is it the council spokeswoman, or the Press that is sloppily adopting the American use of "alternate" instead of the proper English "alternative"?
Using "alternate routes" would actually mean using one, skipping the next, using the next and so on.
limpsharp, Osbaldwick says...
1:59pm Tue 9 Sep 08
Fred Bloggs wrote:You’re exactly right Fred! I pay tax because I have the unrealistic expectation that the local goverment will use the revenue to control the global weather and biologically reprogram dogs to stop messing on pavements. Also - a point worth noting, if only for the benefit of Fred, third world dictatorships usually spend all their money on guns and murders. They don’t spend money on making roads flood. They don’t even have tarmac roads mostly.
The A19 at Germany Beck is flooding several times a year now. This is a disgrace. Why the f*ck isn't this sorted - housing development or no housing development. What do we pay road tax and council tax for? For how long is this country going to be dependent upon patching up Victorian-era infrastructure, it is getting closer and closer to the feeling of living in a run down and corrupt third-World dictatorship.
limpsharp, Osbaldwick says...
2:01pm Tue 9 Sep 08
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Bee, East of York says...
8:54am Mon 8 Sep 08
Hopefully they'll stop all the problems from flooding when they fill the ground in with concrete to build all those new homes?