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Here you will find older scratches, musings and other detritus that once were located on the front pages, but have now faded.

Filed away here to collect dust and cobwwwebs in perpetuity, links may break, facts may change and data may corrupt.

On occasion I may come down here to tidy, but for the most, I prefer to leave the past where it lies.

 

A40 Bridge

Since its instigation in Oct 2005, TFL's Acton Bridges project has slowly been edging towards its Summer '09 completion point. As part of the daily ritual in getting to work its been interesting to watch the slow progress, with the occasional large chunk such as the installation of the new bridge beams back in Oct 2006. One thing that continues to amuse me however is the path at the Westmost end of the Wales Farm Road Bridge.

About two months prior to construction beginning, Ealing Council resurfaced the path from the bridge, all the way round to Jenner Avenue, about 200yards with nice new tiles. Construction started, the diggers rolled in and crushed these. Then they were tarmacked over and a replacement path across the site was installed a bit further down, in tarmac rather than tiles.

A year went by and little changed, and then the path across the site was moved once closed to the bridge and then back again to allow the utilities to be moved. Then in the past month it has moved around ten times and in five at least being put back in exactly the same place as it was a couple of days before, with each time having to be dug out, and then re-laid.

I look forward to the temporary pedestrian bridge being opened so I don't keep missing the across the site of a morning/evening.

25 Jul 2007 18:52 | (0) comments | Things

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