More A606 Closures in Rutland

There are more road closures on A606 this month, this time between Hambleton junction as you leave Oakham and Barnsdale Hill as approach Stamford. This closure is to allow for essential resurfacing work to take place which will take 3 weeks to complete according to Rutland County Council.
 

The road will be closed from 10th November until 28th November 2014 and will not reopen at weekends. A diversion will be in place, which will see local traffic routed via the C8324 Barnsdale Avenue and B668 for the duration of the closure (as shown in the map above). 

Due to weight restrictions on some of the smaller roads in the county, heavy goods vehicles will be diverted via the C8326 Manton to Edith Weston road and A6003 (as shown in the map above).

The closure also will effect buses using the road and people using the number 9 service between Oakham, Stamford and Peterborough should expect some delay in there journey, although at the time of writing it is not clear to the extent of this delay from the information provided by the council. Note there could be a knock on affect to the number 19 service between Oakham and Nottingham because of the why the two service work together.  

This is the second major closure of the A606 this month. Currently the road is closed just north of Langham for similar road works and will remain closed until this coming weekend. 

A606 closed next week

According to the Rutland Council website the the A606 will be shut from its junction with Whissendine Road, just outside Langham, to the Leicestershire county boundary, between Sunday, 2nd November, and Friday, 7th November, next week.

It will reopen for the weekend on Saturday 8th November, but two-way traffic lights will be in place on Monday, November 10 to allow the central reflectors to be put in place.

While the road is close for repairs a diversion will be put into place that takes traffic via the A6003, A47 and B6047 from just outside Oakham to Melton (see map). 

I'm sure, although details have yet to be released, that there will be local diversions in place, but HGV drivers should be aware that all the non classified roads in Rutland have weight limits on them and so they should only use the indicated diversion. 

People taking the main diversion shown in the map should allow at least 20 minutes if not longer for their journey.

Traffic Hell

You know your going to have a bad start to the say as soon as the CD stops playing and the traffic news mentions the A52. It is the main road from the south of Nottingham that most of the traffic uses to enter the city and it is the road I have to take to work.

It would seem todays 4 and a bit mile traffic jam, when I joined the queue, was caused be a Lorry dropping concrete sewage pipes onto the outbound carriageway. Although you wouldn't think that would be too bad given I was inbound the resulting diversions messed up the traffic flows where the A52 is crossed by the A60. 

It was a drivers nightmare, crawling along at 2 to 3 miles per hour at best and stopping every minutes. Nobody was going anywhere fast and even the unmarked police car with it's blue flashing lights was gingerly making it's way through the traffic at a snails pace.

Once you except your fate and you are already late for work a traffic jam can be a nice place to think. At one point while listening to the Peter Bradley Adams track "Song for Viola" I went into a dream world all of my own, it was just a shame reality hit when the traffic started moving. If there was only a way to stay in that world then I would have done. It is all I dream about all the time and seems so beautiful. 

I got to work eventually and on the way home in the afternoon I wondered how much the whole incident had cost. All those people stuck and the money lost because they weren't at work, plus all the fuel used by idle engines. It must have been tens of thousands of pounds if not a lot more. A price was paid for the jam, namely the driver of the lorry was arrested for not securing his load and now will have to face trial so there is some justice in the world of sorts.