Work on Blandford Trailway

[mad matty]

who say's you cant polish a turd?, you can always cover it in tarmac or flo spray!!!!!

ha-ha.

[Matthew Arnold]

This bridge has the A350 (Main trunk road from Poole port to A303) over the top of it. It has 44 ton arctics thundering over it all day every day and occasionally an escorted heavy load (60 ton +). It is being "Shotcreted" as the first course of bricks were working loose with the vibrations of the constant traffic.

[hedgesparrow]

the blue bricks are i beleive blue engineering bricks made them mixing clay with the slag iron. made them very hard. last time we had to break a door through them it took 5 days to break through

[RDB logs]

Hi matt is this the trail that go's out toward france oaks? under the a350 and across 2 fields? as i have been wondering what all the work has been for looks a good job:thumbup:

rich

[Matthew Arnold]

Hi matt is this the trail that go's out toward france oaks? under the a350 and across 2 fields? as i have been wondering what all the work has been for looks a good job:thumbup:

rich

 

Ha ha yup. About £500,000 work paid for by Sustrans. All work apart from fencing anf tree work has been done by In house highways organisation. All tarmaced too.

[RDB logs]

500,000K ? wow!!

all the best rich

[Matthew Arnold]

Some of this afternoons pictures when i went for a walk from Blandford to the White Horse at Stourpaine had a cheeky pint then walked back with the dogs. The official opening is May 19th. Food,drink and live music will be at the finishing point. We are anticipating over 2000 people to turn up as the day goes on.

Edited April 20, 2013 by Matthew Arnold

[mendiplogs]

Some of this afternoons pictures when i went for a walk from Blandford to the White Horse at Stourpaine had a cheeky pint then walked back with the dogs. The official opening is May 19th. Food,drink and live music will be at the finishing point. We are anticipating over 2000 people to turn up as the day goes on.

 

HI MATT nice pics there mate as all way mate jon

[openspaceman]

Some of this afternoons pictures when i went for a walk from Blandford to the White Horse at Stourpaine had a cheeky pint then walked back with the dogs. The official opening is May 19th. Food,drink and live music will be at the finishing point. We are anticipating over 2000 people to turn up as the day goes on.

 

Am I alone in thinking that a streak of blacktop throgh the countryside is aesthetically offensive? It could have been toned down a little with some white shingle rolled into the top layer.

[Matthew Arnold]

Am I alone in thinking that a streak of blacktop throgh the countryside is aesthetically offensive? It could have been toned down a little with some white shingle rolled into the top layer.

 

Thats whats happening in the near future. It is going to be having yellow grit rolled into tar on top. Its an anti-slip surface or as i have called it the anti-slip/ high graze surface.