The lack of coordination when approving roadworks is evident, as
is the Management of the roadworks when they are in progress.
-GCC approving roadworks, with the diversion routes running into
further approved roadworks quite simply moves the bottleneck,
ensuring gridlock. Should this be viewed from an economic,
pollution, travel time to make appointments, etc it is wholly
unsatisfactory
-Simply fining the Utility Companies for non compliance transfers
the cost to the Utility Company Customers and is not improving
their management of the roadworks
This ePetition ran from 15/12/2023 to 31/01/2024 and has now finished.
21 people signed this ePetition.
Philip Cameron, Traffic Manager, has provided the
following response:
The coordination of roadworks is very complicated and time
consuming. We can haveup to 1000 sets of works taking place across
the county at any one time. We recognisethat roadworks can be
inconvenient to road users, so we work with utility companies to
minimise disruption wherever where we have the powers to do so. As
an example if a customer requires a connection or there is a loss
of service it is very difficult for us to
prevent these works from taking place; we must also consider the
impact on those residents and businesses who may have lost their
gas, electricity, water supply or broadband . We do place
conditions on all works permits to minimise the impact of
works.
We have had some issues in the Forest of Dean area with fibre
broadband and also some issues with Severn Trent’s management
of some of their sites. Both these issues have been taken up with
the relevant companies and their contractors. There have also been
some emergency works on the A48 that have exacerbated issues when
other
works are still in progress.
We have improvement plans in place for a number of utilities. All fines that we charge utility companies when things go wrong cannot legally be passed back onto the customer base.