Town roadworks to take place at night (From Bridport and Lyme Regis News)

Town roadworks to take place at night

12:12pm Thursday 9th July 2009

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HIGHWAYS chiefs have agreed a plan for night-time working to minimise disruption when part of Bridport town centre is resurfaced this autumn.

West Street will be closed from 6pm until around 1am for about a week in October.

Town surveyor Daryl Chambers said that by not working during the day the county council hoped to avoid what could have been ‘absolute bedlam’.

He told a meeting of the town council highways and transportation sub committee that the area affected would be from the Town Hall to the West Allington mini roundabout. Doing the work during the evenings was a much more sensible idea.

“It’s got to happen, it is just a question of looking at the best ways of doing it,” he said.

But Coun Sarah Williams said she was still concerned about the people who lived in the area and about how late the work would go on each night.

A spokesman for the county council said that the workmen would be on site for about a fortnight.

The resurfacing would take around seven days and during the time the road was closed traffic would be diverted along the bypass.

The scheme was timed to coincide with the replacement of the town hall zebra crossing with a dual puffin crossing and to changes in the traffic lights sequencing, although this project was awaiting final approval by the county council’s roads and rights of way committee in September.

He said the new button-controlled puffin crossing, which would provide a sanctuary in the middle of the road, was designed to be more user friendly especially for disabled people.

Bridport chamber of Trade president Mike Harvey said: “We are pleased that the work has been scheduled to coincide with the traffic light and crossing changed layouts - assuming they are passed by the County Council. It makes sense to have only one disruption, and evening working will cause less delay than during the day.”

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