BRFR Cake Stop 'breaking news' miscellany

[briantrumpet]

Hmm, big numbers. Two other roundabout on the A19 have been upgraded in recent years, at significant cost, but, no where near £775million.

Silverlink Roundabout £75million around 2018

Testo's Roundabout approx £140million, around 2021

Can't see us getting £775million spent on us, we are 350 miles too far North for that sort of money to be spent. 😂

Maybe the aim is to make HS2 look like good value.

 

[BoldonLad]

Maybe the aim is to make HS2 look like good value.

Hasn't it been renamed LS2 or HS1 ?

 

[briantrumpet]

Hasn't it been renamed LS2 or HS1 ?

Or NVHS2

 

[First Aspect]

I'm trying to wrap my head around two roundabout upgrades on the A19 costing £775 million. That's over £10 for every person living in the UK. For two adjacent roundabouts. In Northumberland.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/othe...roundabouts-would-cost-up-to-775m/ar-AA1JwFKS

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"Up to" £775m. That the most expensive option for both, which involves grade separated junctions. Flyovers basically.

 

[briantrumpet]

"Up to" £775m. That the most expensive option for both, which involves grade separated junctions. Flyovers basically.

Gotta improve traffic flow, no matter the cost (until traffic increases and stops flowing again).

 

[BoldonLad]

Gotta improve traffic flow, no matter the cost (until traffic increases and stops flowing again).

There are other factors in this example ie A flyover in Gateshead having to be demolished, for safety reasons, and the refurbishment of the Tyne Bridge, causing some "rerouting" of traffic, but, upgrading the Testo's Roundabout, moved the congestion on the North Bound A19 about 2 or 3 miles North, to the Tyne Tunnel (which was upgraded several years earlier).