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The Project Control Framework
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May and June 2008
May and June 2008
General
Apart from a few days of very heavy rain the weather has been good to us over the last few months and the works are progressing well. The areas where that have seen the most movement are the cutting adjacent to the Lady Lane, the Northbound carriageway and the new Turnpike Link.
Lady Lane Area
In May you will have been aware that the new Lady Lane Bridge was opened to the public with a temporary signalised junction at the connection between the new Lady Lane and the existing A419. The diversion of Lady Lane traffic across the new bridge has enabled us to remove the old section of Lady Lane which crossed the alignment of the new Bypass. The cutting for the new bypass has now been extended through the location of the old Lady Lane enabling the two sections of the site to be connected.
Lady Lane - Turnpike Link
There has been a lot of activity at the connection between Thamesdown Drive and the new Turnpike Link over the past month with kerbs, gullies and tarmac being constructed and laid. This area is of particular importance at the moment as once the new link is complete it will enable us to create a temporary crossover connecting it to the new Northbound carriageway which will allow us to divert Northbound traffic from both the existing A419 and Thamesdown link through the new bypass.
Northbound Carrageway
We have continued to lay Tarmac along the Northbound carriageway and it now continues for the majority of the length of the scheme. The temporary division detailed above will divert traffic along the new Northbound carriageway enabling us to continue the carriageways and work on the connections between the exiting A419 and the new bypass at the turnpike end of the site. When this diversion is in place we will only have limited access to the northbound verge, therefore we have completed the majority of the finishing works required within the verges and embankments including: top soil and seeding; erection of sign posts and safety fence; and the placement of boundary fencing.
