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Major Road closure

Post by Funkydrummer » Wed Oct 09, 2019 9:46 pm

This should be fun.

Accy road closed for 12 months with effect from 4th November
from Rossendale Road to Junction 9/ Network 65 !!!!

The chaos and congestion in this part of the world will be tremendous.

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Re: Major Road closure

Post by Claretski » Wed Oct 09, 2019 10:49 pm

This is about par for the course these days, no joined up thinking anymore or consideration for the way this will affect everyone living or running a company on this side of town.
I have a distribution company on Rossendale Road Industrial Estate and this is going to cause us huge levels of disruption and is likely to completely gridlock this area of Burnley for large parts of the day.
Bobbins

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Re: Major Road closure

Post by Chester Perry » Wed Oct 09, 2019 10:57 pm

So how are you to get to the Cremortorium

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Re: Major Road closure

Post by burnmark » Wed Oct 09, 2019 11:04 pm

Unless I’ve missed it in the article - how will I get to Network 65 from Burnley? Surely not through Padiham into Hapton and then past Bentley Wood Farm?

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Re: Major Road closure

Post by burnmark » Wed Oct 09, 2019 11:07 pm

Chester Perry wrote:So how are you to get to the Cremortorium
May have to park on the road where Freshfields is and walk through the gated entrance unless they open these temporarily and allow people to drive through onto the Cremortorium car park.

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Re: Major Road closure

Post by martin_p » Wed Oct 09, 2019 11:09 pm

Well that’s us relegated then! Taking the same route into the Turf is one of my pre-match superstitions and now it’s buggered. They really haven’t thought the consequences through on this!
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Re: Major Road closure

Post by theroyaldyche » Wed Oct 09, 2019 11:21 pm

burnmark wrote:Unless I’ve missed it in the article - how will I get to Network 65 from Burnley? Surely not through Padiham into Hapton and then past Bentley Wood Farm?
Correct

Not freytend

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Re: Major Road closure

Post by cricketfieldclarets » Wed Oct 09, 2019 11:21 pm

Already a nightmare in and out that route. 12 months?

This will cause even more carnage. Already chaos during and after starbucks further down too.

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Re: Major Road closure

Post by theroyaldyche » Wed Oct 09, 2019 11:24 pm

cricketfieldclarets wrote:Already a nightmare in and out that route. 12 months?

This will cause even more carnage. Already chaos during and after starbucks further down too.
Most pointless petrol station round here. U enter there at 5pm your not gettin back out

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Re: Major Road closure

Post by Lancasterclaret » Wed Oct 09, 2019 11:28 pm

****

Thats my super fast exit from the turf screwed for a year.

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Re: Major Road closure

Post by cricketfieldclarets » Wed Oct 09, 2019 11:44 pm

Lancasterclaret wrote:****

Thats my super fast exit from the turf screwed for a year.
And hopefuly Dyche, Tarkowski and McNeils :twisted:
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Re: Major Road closure

Post by Leisure » Wed Oct 09, 2019 11:53 pm

It'll be interesting to see what the alternative route will be for the away fans coaches, which usually meet the Police escort on the bridge at junction 9.

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Re: Major Road closure

Post by Darthlaw » Thu Oct 10, 2019 3:58 am

burnmark wrote:Unless I’ve missed it in the article - how will I get to Network 65 from Burnley? Surely not through Padiham into Hapton and then past Bentley Wood Farm?
Yep!
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Considering the A6068 currently backs up to the M65 roundabout, plus the Gannow Top slip road that is usually blocked onto the M65, at evening rush hour, that'll be interesting with the added traffic pressure.

Car-nage springs to mind.

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Re: Major Road closure

Post by ten bellies » Thu Oct 10, 2019 4:59 am

Simon Bucknall (LCC highways operations manager) and his chums have been screwing up Lancaster traffic for the past few years. Their 'safety grounds' excuse is always a good one to hide behind.

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Re: Major Road closure

Post by I luv my wife » Thu Oct 10, 2019 5:20 am

Let's hope the motorway doesn't have to be closed again

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Re: Major Road closure

Post by Burnley1989 » Thu Oct 10, 2019 6:04 am

Does anybody really believe it will take 12 months? We are terrible at keeping to schedule in the UK when it comes to road works
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Re: Major Road closure

Post by Bullabill » Thu Oct 10, 2019 6:53 am

Chester Perry wrote:
So how are you to get to the Cremortorium



Well, the first step is to die.
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Re: Major Road closure

Post by box_of_frogs » Thu Oct 10, 2019 6:57 am

Burnley1989 wrote:Does anybody really believe it will take 12 months? We are terrible at keeping to schedule in the UK when it comes to road works
Can this be like guess the gate?
I’ll guess 22 months.

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Re: Major Road closure

Post by claretblue » Thu Oct 10, 2019 7:16 am

martin_p wrote:Well that’s us relegated then! Taking the same route into the Turf is one of my pre-match superstitions and now it’s buggered. They really haven’t thought the consequences through on this!
contact Darren Bentley! :D

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Re: Major Road closure

Post by claretblue » Thu Oct 10, 2019 7:17 am

box_of_frogs wrote:Can this be like guess the gate?
I’ll guess 22 months.
all entries before year 2024!

;)

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Re: Major Road closure

Post by martin_p » Thu Oct 10, 2019 8:14 am

Leisure wrote:It'll be interesting to see what the alternative route will be for the away fans coaches, which usually meet the Police escort on the bridge at junction 9.
Unless they’re getting there and being escorted to the ground a lot earlier than normal they haven’t been there this season. I come off the M65 at J9 and drive past the away coaches but haven’t seen them this season.

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Re: Major Road closure

Post by ClaretTony » Thu Oct 10, 2019 8:57 am

martin_p wrote:Unless they’re getting there and being escorted to the ground a lot earlier than normal they haven’t been there this season. I come off the M65 at J9 and drive past the away coaches but haven’t seen them this season.
I thought the days of police escorts for coaches were long gone (except for the Burnley v Blackburn games of course)

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Re: Major Road closure

Post by summitclaret » Thu Oct 10, 2019 9:14 am

It must be possible to at least have one way traffic with a little bit of creativity, with that being from west to east. I can see why a full closure might be needed for a short period.

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Re: Major Road closure

Post by martin_p » Thu Oct 10, 2019 9:15 am

ClaretTony wrote:I thought the days of police escorts for coaches were long gone (except for the Burnley v Blackburn games of course)
They were certainly happening up until last season. The police motorbikes waited on the motorway bridge at J9 for the coaches then took them in via Accrington Road, Rossendale Road and Todmorden Road.

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Re: Major Road closure

Post by Lancasterclaret » Thu Oct 10, 2019 9:17 am

summitclaret wrote:It must be possible to at least have one way traffic with a little bit of creativity, with that being from west to east. I can see why a full closure might be needed for a short period.
To be fair, when they closed the Bridge over the Lune at Lancaster it wasn't as bad as everyone thought it would be.

But we'd just had the Bay Gateway finished, so loads of pressure had been taken off the city centre already.

Are there any alternative routes around that (apart from M65 obviously!)?

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Re: Major Road closure

Post by ClaretTony » Thu Oct 10, 2019 9:21 am

martin_p wrote:They were certainly happening up until last season. The police motorbikes waited on the motorway bridge at J9 for the coaches then took them in via Accrington Road, Rossendale Road and Todmorden Road.
I thought they'd long gone, how often do our coaches get that at away game these days?

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Re: Major Road closure

Post by ClaretTony » Thu Oct 10, 2019 9:23 am

Lancasterclaret wrote:Are there any alternative routes around that (apart from M65 obviously!)?
For you, coming from the west on the M65, I'm struggling to think of any other routes other than junction 10.

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Re: Major Road closure

Post by Pimlico_Claret » Thu Oct 10, 2019 10:02 am

Chinese could build ten cities in a year.

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Re: Major Road closure

Post by Andreshotboots » Thu Oct 10, 2019 11:20 am

ClaretTony wrote:I thought the days of police escorts for coaches were long gone (except for the Burnley v Blackburn games of course)
Up until this season they definitely still did it as this is the way I come to the Turf from Darwen. The Police bikes and cars were all parked on the bridge and they used to stop around 4 or 5 coaches there at a time.

I only said to my son on the way to the Everton game I haven't seen them this season. Not sure if they now don't bother or they have started using the diversion route to get used to it .

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Re: Major Road closure

Post by bfcjg » Thu Oct 10, 2019 12:52 pm

What are they doing, building a small disabled stand ?

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Re: Major Road closure

Post by elwaclaret » Thu Oct 10, 2019 1:02 pm

Never thought I’d be glad of the move to fighting my way through Preston rush hour traffic, rather than attending Burnley College... I was gutted, but this news is the silver lining. Looks like Burnley will be a twelve month traffic jam.

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Re: Major Road closure

Post by Dark Cloud » Thu Oct 10, 2019 1:06 pm

Yes, but just think how much better things will be around there when it's all finished! No more jams and delays whatever the time of day. It'll be brilliant!!! ;)

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Re: Major Road closure

Post by MACCA » Thu Oct 10, 2019 1:20 pm

martin_p wrote:Unless they’re getting there and being escorted to the ground a lot earlier than normal they haven’t been there this season. I come off the M65 at J9 and drive past the away coaches but haven’t seen them this season.

I walk down to the ground most games, and I've seen groups of coaches come off at junction 10, head down towards the centre then take a right along Trafalgar Street.

They do however still get an escort away from the ground, usually back to brierfield junction 12 then onto the motorway, as I sometimes see them on my way back as cross windy bridge.

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Re: Major Road closure

Post by martin_p » Thu Oct 10, 2019 1:35 pm

MACCA wrote:I walk down to the ground most games, and I've seen groups of coaches come off at junction 10, head down towards the centre then take a right along Trafalgar Street.

They do however still get an escort away from the ground, usually back to brierfield junction 12 then onto the motorway, as I sometimes see them on my way back as cross windy bridge.
Maybe they’ve changed the route because they knew the roadworks were coming.

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Re: Major Road closure

Post by MACCA » Thu Oct 10, 2019 1:51 pm

martin_p wrote:Maybe they’ve changed the route because they knew the roadworks were coming.
They're never escorted by police though, just queue up with the rest of the traffic.

Although we haven't had what youd describe as any derby or feisty fixtures as yet, that police may deem high risk.

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Re: Major Road closure

Post by clansman » Thu Oct 10, 2019 3:13 pm

I cannot believe Burnley council and LANCS cc highways have come up with this plan it’s bonkers and will cause utter chaos. Seems to be Lancashire in particular where the planning and execution of the upgrade of a short stretch of road can cause so many problems. When the San Francisco 8 lane overhead highway was brought down in an earthquake the yanks rebuilt it in 8 weeks!!

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Re: Major Road closure

Post by NottsClaret » Thu Oct 10, 2019 3:34 pm

Always seemed a bit of an overkill, particularly when we were in the Championship. You'd get a couple of minibuses from Reading or QPR sat on that bridge waiting for an escort off a dozen cops, bikes, vans.. lights flashing all the way up Rossendale Road and down Tod Road.

Never really saw the point of that, nobody cared. At least they seem to have binned it off now.

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Re: Major Road closure

Post by Andreshotboots » Thu Oct 10, 2019 4:07 pm

NottsClaret wrote:Always seemed a bit of an overkill, particularly when we were in the Championship. You'd get a couple of minibuses from Reading or QPR sat on that bridge waiting for an escort off a dozen cops, bikes, vans.. lights flashing all the way up Rossendale Road and down Tod Road.

Never really saw the point of that, nobody cared. At least they seem to have binned it off now.
Lancashire Police overkill?......Never....... ;)

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Re: Major Road closure

Post by depechedingle » Fri Oct 11, 2019 6:45 am

Any idea how this will affect pedestrians who work on Network 65???

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Re: Major Road closure

Post by Goobs » Fri Oct 11, 2019 8:17 am

claretblue wrote:all entries before year 2024!

;)
Is this one of those where if it goes past that then nearest wins? If so I want December 2023

(in the bag!) 8-)

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Re: Major Road closure

Post by Funkydrummer » Fri Oct 11, 2019 9:02 am

depechedingle wrote:Any idea how this will affect pedestrians who work on Network 65???
Looks like they have omitted to mention that particular scenario !!!!!!!

I would assume that all affected businesses and residents have been informed of all the arrangements and how
they are to be affected, but I wouldn't bank on it.

Good luck to all concerned.

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Re: Major Road closure

Post by AndyClaret » Fri Oct 11, 2019 9:53 am

There are houses on that stretch of road, as well as the skip business and used car dealership, no way can they fully close the road.

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Re: Major Road closure

Post by arise_sir_charge » Fri Oct 11, 2019 10:11 am

Funkydrummer wrote:I would assume that all affected businesses and residents have been informed of all the arrangements and how
they are to be affected, but I wouldn't bank on it.
Nope, as a director of a business on Network 65 I can confirm we found out via the Burnley Express article.

I would guess that 80% (maybe more) of the Burnley residents that work on Network 65 and the new Burnley Bridge site use that section of Accrington Rd to get to work on a daily basis.

The diversion through Hapton etc is around 6 miles in total.

To be honest, the only time congestion there is a real issue is when there are roadworks. Other than that it takes a matter of minutes to get from one end to the other.

Seems utterly needless and ill thought out.

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Re: Major Road closure

Post by Funkydrummer » Fri Oct 11, 2019 11:09 am

Nope, as a director of a business on Network 65 I can confirm we found out via the Burnley Express article.

That is a bloody disgrace. Apart from incompetence on behalf of highway authority, I can only
assume that the Burnley Express have somehow got it wrong.
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Re: Major Road closure

Post by bfcmik » Fri Oct 11, 2019 11:19 am

Sounds like it may be a culvert replacement, possibly for Molly Brook.

I would think that road closure boards and signage will be put up at both the Network 65 roundabout exit and the Rossendale Rd traffic lights but the road will actually only be fully closed for a small part of the length of the road. There will be signs that allow access to properties only

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Re: Major Road closure

Post by Billy Balfour » Fri Oct 11, 2019 11:22 am

arise_sir_charge wrote:Nope, as a director of a business on Network 65 I can confirm we found out via the Burnley Express article.
This doesn't surprise me. Shame on both LCC and Burnley council. In fact, it's absolutely appalling. They work for us, eh? More like the other way round.

You should go to the press. The fact that all those companies weren't informed is utterly diabolical.

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Re: Major Road closure

Post by bfcmik » Fri Oct 11, 2019 12:18 pm

Billy Balfour wrote:Shame on both LCC and Burnley council.
What has Burnley Council got to do with it? They are not consulted about the need for road closures - that is wholly the responsibility of Lancashire CC.

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Re: Major Road closure

Post by Belial » Fri Oct 11, 2019 12:38 pm

As Mik says...this is LCC's territory, not Burnley Council. And as we all know, LCC can't sort a pi55-up in a brewery
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Re: Major Road closure

Post by Billy Balfour » Fri Oct 11, 2019 1:02 pm

I'm fully aware of how local govt works. The LA will have been consulted about a road closure on this scale.

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Re: Major Road closure

Post by Funkydrummer » Sat Oct 19, 2019 1:49 pm

If you are unfortunate enough to have to visit the crematorium during the road closure period,
here are the details on gaining access.

https://www.burnleyexpress.net/news/peo ... 1-10056638" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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