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New gas mains will last 80 years
Reporter: DAWN MARSDEN
Date online: 30 March 2010
NATIONAL Grid will replace hundreds of yards of gas mains in Oldham as part of a £96 million improvement programme.
Work starts in Huddersfield Road on Thursday and will take up to three months to complete.
Barry Street will be closed to traffic entering Huddersfield Road for two weeks with a diversion in place.
At certain times the outside lane of Huddersfield Road will be closed and the bus lane will be suspended in certain places.
John Edwards, from the North West Gas Alliance, said: “The gas pipes which run beneath the streets of Oldham have served us well but the time has now come to replace them. We know that this will be a nuisance, but the new pipes are designed to last at least 80 years once we get them in the ground.
Work on the main roads in the Oldham project has been planned in conjunction with the council.
Advance warning will be given and diversion routes will be clearly signposted. Where possible, the new plastic pipes will be inserted inside the existing metal mains to reduce the need for excavations.
Comments
Great, more delays, more petrol, more pollution, more costs. Don’t you just love the planners and utility companies (private?) Well will have to out another 20-25 mins on journey time to work to pay my tax.
Work ..has been planned in conjunction with the council. Heaven help us then. Huddersfield Road continues to be a nightmare since that ghastly Tesco opened.
oldham roads at their best! a complete mess! you cannot get out of oldham, saddleworth, royton, or shaw without hitting some roadworks at the momment.
now can we please rid huddersfield road of those totally pointless and wasteful bus lanes that have been the only cause of the massive traffic jams at the ends of the bypass and ripponden road.
hardly any buses ever use them anyway! this road flowed perfectly before!
whichever planner passed this obviously couldnt count 2 lanes into 1 doesnt go!
And get rid of the stupid cycle lane at Mumps cos nobody uses it, they go under the cycle lane under the road
is it me or wouldnt it of been a good idea to do the gas main when the road was turned into a dual carraigeway a few years ago but then again that would be to obvious i wonder if any of our councillors actualy drive on oldhams roads if they do they should be damn well ashamed of themselves
Every time I pay a visit to the town there seems to be a roadworks on Huddersfield Road.
oh and a note to ombc. supervise the contactactor who will be reinstating the road.
we want like for like, as part of the reason for oldhams disgraceful roads are the repairs done after they've dug it up by these cowboy contractors.
the other is the lack of maintainence by ombc.
Keith you complain about more delays for the gas mains to be replaced. You would be the first to complain if the replacement did not go ahead and the road was dug up every time there was a gas leak.Even more so if God forbid there was an explosion due to an old leaking gas main which was not replaced because you wanted to have no delays!!!!!
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Progress! Funny that Huddersfield Road never seems to be without roadworks for any length of time.
By Owdhamfan @ 30/03/2010 12:16:10