A30 Carland Cross Chiverton Cross

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Re: A30 Carland Cross Chiverton Cross

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A320Driver wrote: Sat Nov 20, 2021 20:02 Traffic management plan for Chybucca here

Essentially the northern side of the junction will be built first, with the A30 using the new e/b off-slip and tieing in to the new carriageway to Chiverton as it gets completed - looks like it will be the first section of the route to be opened.
Thanks for the link, very interesting.
Looks like what I saw being worked on to the west of the B3284 at Chybucca is the temporary carriageway.
And also another temporary section to the north whilst the new roundabout is constructed.
I would say they are well in to phase 1 at the moment.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0b74zsh

A bit about the scheme on Radio cornwall.
(I actually found this on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/BBCRadioCornwa ... 2534558861
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Costain, on behalf of National Highways, are working on the A30 Chiverton to Carland Cross road improvement scheme and will be temporarily closing the B3284 south of Chybucca, for site works to take place.

The B3284 south will close temporarily for all through traffic, from the A30 at Chybucca to the Alett Common junction, except for residents, for three nights from Monday the 13 December at 8:00pm (20:00hrs) to Wednesday the 15 December 2021 at 6:00am (06:00hrs). It will reopen on Thursday the 16 December at 6:00am(06:00hrs). On Wednesday the 15 December, the closure will commence one hour later at 2100hrs (9pm) to 6:00am (06:00hrs) due to late night shopping in Truro.
Diversion route https://mcusercontent.com/1d4eb632df7c9 ... 5839e5.jpg

I suspect this might be to tie in the temporary alignment so they can get on & work on the southern roundabout,one of my work colleagues drove past there the other day and said the temporary road had been tarmacked.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYopmWPgok0

Just found this. You can see they are now using a temporary diversion, at Chybacca, presumably to build the Southern roundabout.

Not sure what else to say about the video. Hummm...
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Not exactly great camera work !
Not been that way for a while so interesting to see.
I would agree that it is to build the embankment for the southern roundabout, there will be another temporary alignment to the north, once both roundabouts and the bridge are complete I think the next phase is to divert traffic onto the new junction to allow the new D2 to be built, I'll have to have another look at the traffic management plans.
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I think it’s fair to say the cameraman won’t be getting hired by ITV News any time soon, and why did it sound like it’s been dubbed with rush hour at Waterloo?
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Well, certainly not the best video, but even a poor video, is better than nothing.

I can't see any sign yet of building another temporary alignment to the North for the A30 traffic. Perhaps they just haven't done it yet, or perhaps they plan to do something else. I found that on an A21 scheme nearer me, they didn't do traffic management exactly as the plans on the web suggested. I presume they can decide to do something else if it becomes more convenient at the time.
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by A320Driver » Thu Jan 06, 2022 00:21

and why did it sound like it’s been dubbed with rush hour at Waterloo?
Perhaps somebody turned up with a boombox, and started playing strange things while he was filming ;).
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2wUFGoJZX4

Another video where I probably shouldn't comment on the filming or presentation. ;)

A bit that interests me near the start (about 40 seconds), is a small cell phone tower that is going to be relocated to make way for the new D2.

One part he got wrong was (12:42) when he pointed the camera at Trevalso Cottage, and talked about demolition. Errr... The plans show that cottage is outside the boundary of the works, so I'm pretty sure they aren't going to demolish it.
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RichardEvans67 wrote: Thu Jan 06, 2022 00:51 Well, certainly not the best video, but even a poor video, is better than nothing.

I can't see any sign yet of building another temporary alignment to the North for the A30 traffic. Perhaps they just haven't done it yet, or perhaps they plan to do something else. I found that on an A21 scheme nearer me, they didn't do traffic management exactly as the plans on the web suggested. I presume they can decide to do something else if it becomes more convenient at the time.
Phase 2 included diverting traffic onto both temporary alignments, plus stopping up the right hand turn on to the A30 eastbound from Chybucca, but it did say that they were going to carry out a survey to see how many cars turned onto the A30 eastbound, maybe due to the results of that survey they have decided to change the plans.
Possibly the southern roundabout is going to be completed before thay start work on the northern roundabout once the bridge is nearer completion, might make sense to do it that way, less disruption to traffic.
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by adam 1972 » Mon Jan 10, 2022 15:36

Possibly the southern roundabout is going to be completed before thay start work on the northern roundabout once the bridge is nearer completion, might make sense to do it that way, less disruption to traffic.
I can't really see how that would make sense. Without the Northern Roundabout, the Southern roundabout wouldn't be connected to anything. So why would doing just the southern one be any advantage.

Perhaps if the bridge needs more time anyway, it's simply not worth the extra resources of building both diversion routes at the same time. They might as well do them one after the other, while the bridge is being built. I expect whatever they are doing, it will become more clear later in the year.
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RichardEvans67 wrote: Mon Jan 10, 2022 15:54
I can't really see how that would make sense. Without the Northern Roundabout, the Southern roundabout wouldn't be connected to anything. So why would doing just the southern one be any advantage.

Perhaps if the bridge needs more time anyway, it's simply not worth the extra resources of building both diversion routes at the same time. They might as well do them one after the other, while the bridge is being built. I expect whatever they are doing, it will become more clear later in the year.
I meant they may do the southern roundabout & open it to B3284 traffic, & remove the temp alignment, but like you say hopefully things will become clearer as the work progresses.
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by adam 1972 » Mon Jan 10, 2022 18:32

I meant they may do the southern roundabout & open it to B3284 traffic, & remove the temp alignment
OK. They could do that. I think it would basically depend on when they end up scheduling jobs.

I was thinking more in terms of traffic management. Plus I didn't really understand why you mentioned the right turn from the B3284 to the A30.
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It was on the traffic management map for Chybucca phase 2 "Stop up right hand turn from B3284 onto A30 East"
What they were saying is that right turns from the B3284 south would need to be stopped due to the northern temporary alignment, but a link for B3284 through traffic would be created via a new temporary link.

https://infrastructure.planninginspecto ... GEMENT.pdf

Should be on pages 16 and 17
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A30 Traffic Management Alert
Temporary 5 day night time closure A30 Chiverton Roundabout to Boxheater

Costain, on behalf of National Highways, is working on the A30 Chiverton to Carland Cross road improvement scheme and will be undertaking a range of works at various locations along the closed section.

The temporary Chiverton Cross to Boxheater Junction closure, will be nightly from Monday the 14 February 2022 to Saturday the 19 February 2022, 2000hrs (8pm) to 0600hrs (6am).

The B3284 will remain open north to south and vice versa only, controlled by temporary lights at Chybucca.
Diversion route https://mcusercontent.com/1d4eb632df7c9 ... 7ec994.jpg
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I wonder whether this includes removing the overbridge on the Zelah bypass.
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RichardEvans67 wrote: Wed Feb 02, 2022 00:46 I wonder whether this includes removing the overbridge on the Zelah bypass.
I was wondering that myself, also wondering if they will be doing work on the northern temporary alignment at Chybucca, a colleague who drives to work via Chybucca said there are some works going on to the north of the A30 around the area of the new bridge, Sentinel sattelite images from the 17th and 19th Jan clearly show something happening in that area.
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A30 Traffic Management Alert
12 Month closure of Pennycomequick Lane

Costain, on behalf of Highways England, is working on the A30 Chiverton to Carland Cross road improvement scheme and will be closing Pennycomequick Lane for bridge, underpass and highway construction works to take place.

The closure will run from Monday the 21 February 2021 at 0800hrs (8am) to 1700hrs (5pm) Monday the 20 February 2023 inclusive.
Diversion Route https://mcusercontent.com/1d4eb632df7c9 ... 167249.jpg
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Work is now progressing on the A30 dualling scheme. Here are a few of my pictures of the construction of the road (taken in February 2022). Although the signage along the route has a completion date of December 2023 my guess would be that it should be completed by the summer of that year. The Tolgroggan overbridge (near Zelah) that's shown on my first picture is due to be removed and replaced as part of the A30 works.
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A few more pictures of the A30 (under construction). These pictures show the Chybucca Junction under construction.
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