Re-purposing road space for construction traffic

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Re-purposing road space for construction traffic

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Interesting temporary arrangement on Trinity Road in Wandsworth for the construction of the Thames Tideway - a new vehicle holding bay has been constructed in the northbound merge after the underpass:

https://goo.gl/maps/ns6P28eNzd3ynYsk8

This has required the underpass to be remarked as two lanes (gaining a hard shoulder in the process) which is actually to my mind a better set up as it allows the entry and exits to have dedicated lanes instead of slamming 3 lanes into Wandsworth Bridge roundabout.

Is this likely to be retained or returned to the former layout when the works holding bay is no longer needed?
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Re: Re-purposing road space for construction traffic

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That's been there for several years. I've hardly ever seen it being used.
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We've had various bits to do with the Tideway, which simplistically is the construction of a large sewer physically underneath the Thames west to east across central London. Various well-known national contractors are involved. Ultimate client is Thames Water. Rather like Crossrail, in addition to the basic civils aspect of tunneling there is a substantial M&E component in the overall scheme.

Compared to Crossrail (it's a very comparable scale cross-London tunneling project) their project management and other aspects are so well done. They have been very proactive in minimising interruption to the neighbourhood, and all sorts of ingenuity has been employed to avoid disruption to the locals - a real WHBM approach to project design :) . I really should have gone for a job there. Much of the tunneling muckaway has been done by river barge rather than road.

Neighbours who are involved in a yacht club on the Thames in Wapping had Tideway set up another of their worksites right next to them. As one of a number of community support actions they offered to build the club, whose river access they had obstructed a few times, a new slipway. Beautifully done, and here it is - a jack-up barge on site in 2017, and the new slipway in 2018 :

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.5078418 ... 376!8i2688

Thames Tideway should be complete in 2024, and has been far better programmed than the Crossrail fiasco. As the completion date for Crossrail goes back by the year, the engineers have been discussing who will actually win the opening competition - first passenger on Crossrail or first poo on Tideway :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Tideway_Scheme
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Re: Re-purposing road space for construction traffic

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Muckaway by river barge indeed. Solar Loo being removed from the Tideway Blackfriars site...
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