Road repairs for local street
This morning, the temperature indicator installed on my car for no apparent reason informed me that it was six degrees below zero. This is a new record which delighted my geeky and statistics-loving brain. Unfortunately the statistic didn’t delight my frozen fingers as they tried to unlock a stuck door, or my cold hands and feet as they tried to control my Peugeot as it slithered across the frozen wasteland that my street had turned into.
However (Look out ahead!! Awful pun alert!), the weather has been much sunnier for the residents of Sunny Drive in the ward, who will be the beneficiaries of some new pavement later on in the week, when their road gets refurbished courtesy of the good people at Bury Council’s Highways Department.
The budget for road and pavement refurbishment in Prestwich is woefully tiny. Regular readers may recall my annoyance when, at the time it was set, the entire budget for roads was less than the amount needed to re-do the single worst road in town, let alone the dozen others in dire need of repair, and the many others with potholes and cracked pavings.
But we have managed to eke out a few quid from the Council here and there to fill in the most gaping holes and repair those roads most resembling the Moonscape.
One such road is Sunny Drive, the cracks in which are so deep that passers-by have reported magma seeping up through the surface. They needn’t fret further though, as the pavement is now being repaired, and the chances of falling towards the centre of the Earth will be greatly reduced.
That still leaves us to ponder what to do with the rest of the crumbling roads infrastructure in Prestwich. Anyone driving down Warwick Street would be forgiven for thinking that they were undertaking a strenuous vibration test in the place where shock absorbers go to die. And people with the misfortune to have to venture down Clifton Road to the tip experience something out of Alton Towers as their vehicles sway violently whilst dodging the craters. It’s not good enough and the Council need to prioritise Prestwich’s roads in the next budget.
Rick
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