Traffic News

Roadworks have yet again brought the roads around Ramsbottom to its knees causing some journeys as short as from the Hare and Hounds to Ramsbottom of just over a mile to take between 30 minutes and an hour.

The roadworks are being completed by Electricity Northwest for an underground high voltage cable (possibly related to the power outages that have occurred in the past few months nearby)

Every few months I seem to be reporting on how our roads are being suffocated by the sheer number of cars, yet new homes continue to be built and bus services get cut. Does anyone have the solution?

Traffic was snarled up through Ramsbottom this morning causing massive delays and tailbacks due to the temporary lights despite some people saying the lights were pointless as nothing was happening at the time.

Ramsbottom commuters have once again been brought to their knees by temporary lights and roadworks. It’s gotten to the point where I’m pretty sure the lights are just kept in a shed somewhere locally to be brought out in another week or two once these are finished.

One Network states that the roadworks are expected to last until the 15th of November.

One Network Roadworks 27 Oct – 15 Nov – Bury New Road, Ramsbottom, Bury

If you were heading out this morning you might have noticed traffic heavier than usual, unfortunately this is such a common occurrence that I’m starting to think this should be something I add as a podcast segment onto the podcast.

This time, the roadworks are down to BT installing more fibre cabling, which hopefully will mean more people can get faster internet (I don’t know, it could be repairs)

Here are the details:

Whilst looking this up I also found there are some planned road works in a few weeks on Bass Lane (sorry everyone):

One set of roadworks that passed me by…until I was sat in them are the temporary lights situated at he junction of Kay Brow and Bolton Street.

Although the information on roadworks.org seems to suggest they were expected yesterday, they only appeared today.

On the entry on roadworks.org it states they should be gone by tomorrow.