RoyalBlue Which clowns scheduled this work for then?
Why the F8ck don't they move it by a few days. Saturday nights tend to be quieter.
Should make the idiots appear on the pitch at the Mad Stad at half-time!
Tony Le MesmerRoyalBlue Which clowns scheduled this work for then?
Why the F8ck don't they move it by a few days. Saturday nights tend to be quieter.
Should make the idiots appear on the pitch at the Mad Stad at half-time!
Yeah . they should re scheduling major roadworks around a football match that wasn't scheduled to be played on that day anyway. Surely football comes before everything else?
RoyalBlueTony Le MesmerRoyalBlue Which clowns scheduled this work for then?
Why the F8ck don't they move it by a few days. Saturday nights tend to be quieter.
Should make the idiots appear on the pitch at the Mad Stad at half-time!
Yeah . they should re scheduling major roadworks around a football match that wasn't scheduled to be played on that day anyway. Surely football comes before everything else?
Not so stupid as you make out. The game was switched some time back, not at sure notice. A closure that early at night on a weekday evening is stupid, regardless of whether there is a football game on. The game just makes it even worse. However, anyone who uses our road network knows that nowadays the Govt, Highways Agency and their contractors don't give a f*ck about trying to minimise inconvenience for car users (the absurdly long 50mph stretches on the M1 and M3 being just a couple of examples).
RoyalBlueTony Le Mesmer Yeah . they should re scheduling major roadworks around a football match that wasn't scheduled to be played on that day anyway. Surely football comes before everything else?
Not so stupid as you make out. The game was switched some time back, not at sure notice. A closure that early at night on a weekday evening is stupid, regardless of whether there is a football game on. The game just makes it even worse. However, anyone who uses our road network knows that nowadays the Govt, Highways Agency and their contractors don't give a f*ck about trying to minimise inconvenience for car users (the absurdly long 50mph stretches on the M1 and M3 being just a couple of examples).
GreenRoyalBlueTony Le Mesmer Yeah . they should re scheduling major roadworks around a football match that wasn't scheduled to be played on that day anyway. Surely football comes before everything else?
Not so stupid as you make out. The game was switched some time back, not at sure notice. A closure that early at night on a weekday evening is stupid, regardless of whether there is a football game on. The game just makes it even worse. However, anyone who uses our road network knows that nowadays the Govt, Highways Agency and their contractors don't give a f*ck about trying to minimise inconvenience for car users (the absurdly long 50mph stretches on the M1 and M3 being just a couple of examples).
Not quite true, they'd carry out the works on a Friday between 2 and 8 if they really didn't give a damn.
Ultimately some people do have to be inconviencied for the greater good. I'm sure they're as sorry as I am that on this occasion it's you, RoyalBlue
UpThePremGreenRoyalBlue Not so stupid as you make out. The game was switched some time back, not at sure notice. A closure that early at night on a weekday evening is stupid, regardless of whether there is a football game on. The game just makes it even worse. However, anyone who uses our road network knows that nowadays the Govt, Highways Agency and their contractors don't give a f*ck about trying to minimise inconvenience for car users (the absurdly long 50mph stretches on the M1 and M3 being just a couple of examples).
Not quite true, they'd carry out the works on a Friday between 2 and 8 if they really didn't give a damn.
Ultimately some people do have to be inconviencied for the greater good. I'm sure they're as sorry as I am that on this occasion it's you, RoyalBlue
Usually Highways England include embargo periods in the contract documents for days when football is being played such that Traffic management cannot be put in place on said days. In this case, as the match was changed at late notice, Highways England would then have to pay the contractor to delay the project in order to comply with the embargo. With it being on a week when the main beams were being lifted into place on a number of sequential days, the costs in both £££'s and time would be huge. In addition a traffic order with the police to move the beams this week would have been in place months ago and again would have been a huge issue to change.
Royality creeps In Its bad enough the game being bought forward to a bloody Thursday. This has ruined a few drinks we had planned with some of the other lot!
The fact the M4 will be shut just aggravates the issue further.
Living in East Berks I usually avoid the M4 for the back roads through Whitley, Lower Earley and A329M.
Going to be carnage leaving Urrrgh!! (Especially with the fake hoops going that way)
When you have to get up early and don't get home to 6pm, I might just stay in and watch it on the telly. Going to be a lot less aggravation.
Warfield North Stand Peach saying that there is a review meeting today between all parties involved ( HA, Wok Council , contractor and the club) and the issue of delaying the closure Thursday will be discussed. They seem to think it will be delayed.
GreenRoyalBlueTony Le Mesmer Yeah . they should re scheduling major roadworks around a football match that wasn't scheduled to be played on that day anyway. Surely football comes before everything else?
Not so stupid as you make out. The game was switched some time back, not at sure notice. A closure that early at night on a weekday evening is stupid, regardless of whether there is a football game on. The game just makes it even worse. However, anyone who uses our road network knows that nowadays the Govt, Highways Agency and their contractors don't give a f*ck about trying to minimise inconvenience for car users (the absurdly long 50mph stretches on the M1 and M3 being just a couple of examples).
Not quite true, they'd carry out the works on a Friday between 2 and 8 if they really didn't give a damn.
RoyalBlue So, as I suggested, and for which I was derided by some, it was possible for common sense to prevail. The work has been rescheduled in terms of start time tomorrow evening. I wonder whether the contractors had to be paid more money? I suspect not.
RG30 Postponed until 11pm.
http://www.readingfc.co.uk/news/article/m4-open-after-reading-vs-qpr-2831892.aspx
NamelessRoyalBlue So, as I suggested, and for which I was derided by some, it was possible for common sense to prevail. The work has been rescheduled in terms of start time tomorrow evening. I wonder whether the contractors had to be paid more money? I suspect not.
Are you going to withdraw your cheap jibes made at the HA and contractors made in the style of a 14 year old ?
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