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EXC: Why have @HighwaysSWEST built a brand new motorway junction that can only be used by cyclists?
The junction - on the M49 - was completed months ago costing around £50 million smackers BUT......(wee thread)
The junction - on the M49 - was completed months ago costing around £50 million smackers BUT......(wee thread)
The road linking it to the massive Western Approach Retail Park is, well, see for yourself......
Both @HighwaysSWEST & @sgloscouncil insist it's the responibility of the landowner to build the link.
'Who is that' I hear you say? On the distribution parks website it's a company called "Severnside Distribution Land LTD" who are based in Jersey with no website or contact..
'Who is that' I hear you say? On the distribution parks website it's a company called "Severnside Distribution Land LTD" who are based in Jersey with no website or contact..
Their agents, @knightfrank have ignored my repeated requests for comment (to be fair there are 2 agents listed, the others did respond telling me it was nowt to do with them). Meanwhile a statement from a local not-for-profit group representing businesses gives a clue...
SevernNet tell me "It is evidently disappointing for all parties that the new junction cannot be used yet, but there are commercial and procedural arrangements that need to be fulfilled, prepared and agreed by the parties."
Oh dear. So there is no agreement to build the link.
Oh dear. So there is no agreement to build the link.
I asked @amazon & @Farmfoodsstore (who are closest to the junction) what they made of this impasse - but they declined to say.
So until the landowner feels inclined to build a link road, the junction remains unusable for motor traffic.
The cyclists love it.
So until the landowner feels inclined to build a link road, the junction remains unusable for motor traffic.
The cyclists love it.
For other bits of infra built in the region and not completed see.....
The "road to knowhere" (Yate)
The "road to knowhere" (Yate)
And the classic "Bridge to knowhere" (Central Bristol), which is 5 years old next month 
Finally here's a nice write up of the whole sorry affair....
(end) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-53808525
(end) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-53808525
