A34 closed for 4 nights

The A34 bypass will be closed for overnight from 7pm until 6pm from tomorrow ( Friday, 18 March) for 4 nights to enable Cheshire East Highways to carrying out works.

The works will take place in four phases as detailed below - Please note Phase 4 is scheduled to take place the day before Phase 3 (?).

Phase 1 – Birrell Way and Pendleton Way 18/03/22

- Retexturing works to improve skid resistance

- Road markings renewal – centre line, roundabouts and approaches

- 4 Vehicle restraint repairs

- Gully cleansing

- CAT 1 defect repairs

- Street lighting repairs

- Ecology Surveys to enable vegetation cut back

- Vegetation cut back to signage

- Sign Cleaning

- Carriageway sweeping

Phase 2 – Birrell Way and MacLean Way 19/03/22

- Retexturing works to improve skid resistance

- Road markings renewal – centre line, roundabouts and approaches

- 4 Vehicle restraint repairs

- CAT 1 Repairs

- Street lighting repairs

- Vegetation cut back to signage

- Sign Cleaning

- Carriageway sweeping

Phase 4 – Ainslie Way 20/03/22

- Retexturing works to improve skid resistance

- Road markings renewal – centre line, roundabouts and approaches

- 6 Vehicle restraint repairs

- Gully cleansing

- CAT 1 Repairs

- Street lighting repairs

- Ecology Surveys to enable vegetation cut back

- Vegetation cut back

- Sign Cleaning

- Carriageway sweeping

Phase 3 – MacLean Way and Ainslie Way 21/03/22

- Retexturing works to improve skid resistance

- Road markings renewal – centre line, roundabouts and approaches

- 4 Vehicle restraint repairs

- Gully cleansing

- CAT 1 Repairs

- Street lighting repairs

- Ecology Surveys to enable vegetation cut back

- Vegetation cut back

- Sign Cleaning

- Carriageway sweeping

Access for Handforth Dean retail park will be via Stanley Green and access for Total Fitness park will be via Hall Moss Lane. Signed diversions will also be in place during the works.

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Comments

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Christopher Evans
Thursday 17th March 2022 at 10:25 pm
Editor, there must be a typo in the script. 7pm to 6pm suggests a 23 hour closure. This must be a mistake.

This is very short notice for all concerned. Poor communication by CEC Highways Dept.

Thank you for providing this important Public notification service. Please ask CEC to explain; why the information about the closure of the A34 was not more widely circulated?

On another topic. The closure of sections of the A34 is the perfect opportunity for ANSA to litter pick the verges and carriageways so as to remove litter & fly tipped debris. Will ANSA take this opportunity to litter pick and remove fly tipped rubbish from the A34 during this period of closure?

If you could get these questions answered it you be of assistance to all.

Thank you in advance.
Pete Taylor
Friday 18th March 2022 at 5:59 am
I hope that this skid resistance treatment will not enable the noisy boys to drive even faster. They seem to be the only ones who crash on the bypass.
David Pearce
Saturday 19th March 2022 at 12:00 pm
Speed activated stinger stations should also have been deployed along this section of the A34 which at certain race meeting times resembles a Top Gear test track
David Smith
Sunday 20th March 2022 at 11:08 am
DAVID PEARCE:
On what basis would you deploy your 'Stinger Stations' during the so-called 'race meetings'?
You just do not have an understanding of the problem so many local residents living within earshot of the A34 have when it comes to the noise along the A34 - an issue that has been going on FOR FAR TOO LONG NOW.
The pesky noise buckets are travelling BELOW the speed limit of 70mph - so you cannot 'do them' for speeding. They all have road tax, MoT, insurance and a vehicle that is otherwise visually in compliance with the law - apart from lesser offences such as their vehicle registration may not be displayed in accordance with the very strict standards of number/letter spacing and therefore committing an offence.
So if your 'stinger station' was activated for such a minor offence and the vehicle crashed as a result - perhaps into a vehicle being driven by your child and with your grandchildren in the back - how would you feel then? I also think the police would come under massive condemnation and I would hope there are very strict safety rules covering the actual use of such stinger devices and driving around making too much noise probably isn't one of them.
The issue is NOISE. If these were all electric cars they would not be making a noise. They would not therefore be a problem. Electric cars will not be the preferred choice because they are quiet - even though they are capable of much greater acceleration [=performance] and fully capable of reaching the maximum 70mph limit. The issue I SAY AGAIN IS NOISE. You - David Pearce - must be totally deaf because you cannot 'see' and understand the nature of the problem here. It has been explained so many times on the Wilmslow.co.uk and AlderleyEdge.co.uk forums so you really have no excuse for appearing so uneducated on this important topic that is affecting the quality of life for so many people in the vicinity. It also affects the value of their properties. I mean would YOU want to live next to such a racket and cannot sit in your own garden on a nice day or even enjoy TV without having the volume high and windows closed so as to drown out the noise?
A PERFECT solution to tackle this noise problem is the decibel camera. It targets individual cars that must then be 'fixed' after incurring a suitably large fine and points on a licence. A few repeat performances and these 'boy racers' will eventually be banned from driving which I think would be the best way to 'hurt' these morons by separating them from their cherished vehicles and pastime.

Just in case anyone still hasn't heard of the decibel camera - here's a link to the successful system in London:

https://www.conservativehome.com/localgovernment/2021/09/johnny-thalassites-how-new-technology-will-help-us-defeat-noise-pollution-in-kensington-and-chelsea.html

or in Paris:

https://www.green-zones.eu/en/blog-news/noise-cameras-in-paris

So why do we not yet have such a system in our area to catch the many individual boy racers who are not in a large group but still make a racket into the small hours of the night and keep many awake?
ASK YOUR LOCAL COUNCILLOR - especially Craig Browne who - with his fingers in the committees of so many transport-related pies - must be the ‘man’ to represents us on all matters transport & highways.

https://moderngov.cheshireeast.gov.uk/ecminutes/mgUserInfo.aspx?UID=7377

Road noise comes form the type of road surface and the tyres. It is louder in the wet and increases with speed. So reducing the speed limit along the A34 to say 50mph would reduce the noise, make the road less attractive to the 'boy racers' and also I am sure safer when an accident does [WILL] happen.

Over to you DAVID PEARCE.
Bryan Jobling
Wednesday 23rd March 2022 at 4:09 pm
My understanding is that the police are researching the possibility of installing these noise activated cameras A34 and someone from Knightsbridge is coming to Wilmslow to see if it feasible, that said I haven’t anything on the subject for a while.
Simon Rodrigues
Thursday 24th March 2022 at 7:28 am
Cheap job wont last the year, waste of money. Only useful thing line painting which should be done every 1-2 years
Simon Rodrigues
Thursday 24th March 2022 at 7:42 am
Lets talk about what you have done, Mot compressed into a bitumen base. During hot weather the substrate will work lose creating a hazard to road users and plenty of cracked windscreens. Eventually all of the substrate will work lose creating an area that is far from skid proof, before the year is out.