Ludlow’s Mayor Tim Gill and Shropshire Councillor Andy Boddington are warning that incomplete roadworks in Ludlow could create havoc during next week’s Food Festival.
Tim Gill explains:
“Shropshire Council surface gritted Corve Street several weeks ago. This is one of the two main roads that lead into the town centre. But the council hasn’t repainted any white or yellow lines. The chaos has led to bus and loading bays being full of parked cars. That has prevented buses safely discharging passengers. Delivery lorries have blocked the highway causing tailbacks because the loading bays are full of cars.
“Given what it is like now, the prospect for the Food Festival this weekend is dire. Buses will be unable to safely discharge and collect people without the road being blocked to other traffic.”
“We need the Food Festival to work well. Shropshire Council must step up to mark and it must do it quickly. I see no signs of it doing so.”
Andy Boddington, Shropshire Councillor for Ludlow North, says:
“We get hour by hour updates on roadworks in Shrewsbury. But is impossible to get any information from Shropshire Council on what is happening in Ludlow week in week out.
“The council tells me that it has a serious problem with its highway contractor Ringway. The council says it has no clue what is happening day to day on road repairs. It can take two to three days for officers to get a response from Ringway. Yet this company is being paid millions from the public purse to keep the county’s roads up to scratch. Anyone driving around will know that our roads are not up to scratch.
“Taxpayers’ money is quite literally going down the drain in late and incompetent repairs. One street in Ludlow has had to be resurfaced three times because the contractor failed to get it right. I do not know why Shropshire Council continues to pay its highway contractors when they are not delivering the road maintenance this county needs.”
Locals, not visitors, have been parking over our shared vehicle entrance in Corve Street preventing access. It’s obviously used by our cars and owners of six properties and of course for emergency vehicles. The visibility is then difficult when exiting onto Corve Street with cars parked left and right creating safety issues where yellow lines would normally exist…
This is of course Shropshire Council’s responsibility but we have been there many times …deja vu indeed
Perhaps someone from Shropshire council should have a look at the grass growing in a straight line down the centre of the tarmac on Silk Mill Lane, resurfaced this spring.
If it is to be anything like Shrop Council’s “management” of the on-going Bridgnorth road works … you have my total sympathy.
And remember not to pollute. Turn your engine off in the queue. You will also save yourself a packet.
Cones out on Corve street now, hopefully things will be sorted in time for the food festival.
Amazingly double yellows painted this morning in Corve Street so well done Andy for raising issue.