Road closures.

[Dean Lofthouse]

Besides we run a business so everyone is out there to take a bit of it

 

Yeh,

 

I can understand such as (building) planning application costs where sometimes huge profits are made, but we normally only charge for what it actually costs for the closure so we only make something on the actual take down, which may be a couple of hundred quid

[mikeyg]

i got one road closure quoted at around £400 which they claimed to be the set price. had another quote with an 18 mile diversion which was a considerable amount more because of signage hire etc.

[Dean Lofthouse]

i got one road closure quoted at around £400 which they claimed to be the set price. had another quote with an 18 mile diversion which was a considerable amount more because of signage hire etc.

 

Now that's when I can see high prices coming into effect Mikey, with such as long detours etc. Someones got to put it out and take it back in again.

 

The road closure I wanted was 300 yards long, a cobbled road which was used as a short cut to a new housing complex, which had it's own dedicated access.

 

One bloke even came up the road in his car from one of the houses over the wall to complain about us working on a sunday, cheeky barsteward.

[bob]

come on dean what do you expect £400 is damn cheap

Loads of folk need to co,ordinate such as all fire stations ambulance police local community and loads more

you will get yourself in tons of trouble one day

 

and men to plan diversion

men to set up

men to take down

and please tell me you have your nrswa

[Dean Lofthouse]

come on dean what do you expect £400 is damn cheap

Loads of folk need to co,ordinate such as all fire stations ambulance police local community and loads more

you will get yourself in tons of trouble one day

 

and men to plan diversion

men to set up

men to take down

and please tell me you have your nrswa

 

Sure does Bob, I could close that road completely and it would not add any time whatsoever on to my route.

 

Diversion = "use the proper entrance to your estate mate" sign at the top of the cobble lane

 

I could co-ordinate the emergency services in three phone calls.

 

Yes there is work to do but isn't that what we pay taxes for.

 

Do you council boys have to chip in if you want to close a road or do you get it for free ?

 

There's only you on this forum Bob with all tickets known to man

[Topcat]

There are two cases where you probably want a road closed. Prunning large tree you should be able to get away with 1 lane closed and men with stop/go an manage yourself.

 

The other is a dangerous tree take down over/ next to road. You don't ask the highways,you tell them.If they don't shut the road,you do and there is nothing they can do about it as long as you manage it and tell all who need to know. Forget 6 weeks or 5 days.

 

The last one I did was in Guisborough high street on a saturday. (Yorkshire man will back me up on this). Viewed the trees on Friday, sorted the contractor,contacted highways at about 3pm. Same response as some seem to be getting on here.Cost,6wks etc,etc.

 

Speak to the relevant dept director and remind him about who's head is on the block once dangerous trees have been ID.by 7.30 sat morning,emergency closure,couple of signs on lamp posts, road blocked both ends,total closure till we finished. Say yes,sir to the council and they take 1 step forward.Say no, your wrong and is your job really worth the risk and they fall over backwards.

 

If all fails get the police involved,the best traffic lights going is a police car with the xmas tree on top.

Edited January 9, 2009 by Topcat