Relief road deal signed
10:55am Wednesday 13th June 2007
Comments (23)CONTRACTORS were today appointed to build Weymouth's long-awaited £84.5 million relief road.
And work on the 3.75-mile route is likely to get under way early next year.
The deal between Dorset County Council and Skanska Construction was signed at a meeting at County Hall, Dorchester.
The county's project director for the scheme, Michael Winter, said: "Skanska, supported by international civil engineering design consultant Owen Williams, has a wealth of experience in building technically demanding and environmentally sensitive projects like the proposed relief road."
He said the firm was being engaged under a form of contract which allowed the county to do such a thing before all statutory consents were obtained.
County transport spokesman Councillor Geoffrey Brierley said: "We are looking forward to Skanska supporting our own engineers through the remaining statutory procedures.
"When these are completed they will be given the green light to complete the design work necessary for construction works to commence.
"There is a lot to be done but we still hope that a start can be made on site early in 2008."
The relief road is needed to relieve mounting congestion along both the A354 from Weymouth-Dorchester and the A353 to the east and the scheme is included in the Depart-ment of Transport's regional funding allocation for projects to start during the next three years.
The county planning committee has granted planning permission for the scheme and compulsory purchase orders have been made to secure some of the land required while the road is hoped to be completed in 2011.
Skanska operations director David Blackburn said: "We are delighted to have been selected as the county council's contractor for this project.
"Throughout the tender period we developed a considerable understanding of the technical and environmental challenges that will face us.
"We are confident in our abilities to deal with them and construct a road that will be a real asset to the local community and beyond."
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graham, weymouth says...
11:10am Wed 13 Jun 07
Terry, weymuff says...
11:25am Wed 13 Jun 07
Jeremy, Weymouth says...
11:35am Wed 13 Jun 07
Terry wrote:Pardon? Of course it was in his remit - it was in his constituency!
Perhaps our Minister for Schools will keep away from activities that are not within his remit now that contractors have been appointed
Anyway, excellent news!
Jake, Weymouth says...
11:55am Wed 13 Jun 07
ian, says...
12:34pm Wed 13 Jun 07
http://www.rsf.org/a
rticle.php3?id_artic
le=21593
http://www.ifex.org/
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http://www.leighday.
co.uk/doc.asp?doc=66
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http://www.adjudicat
ion.co.uk/cases/skan
ska.htm
http://www.hse.gov.u
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http://www.rm.org.uy
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much more out there....
I have not heard anything in these reports about how many local jobs will come from this and how much labour etc they will bring in from outside, was this taken into consideration when awarding the contracts?
Stuart, says...
1:06pm Wed 13 Jun 07
Albo, Wyke Regis says...
2:52pm Wed 13 Jun 07
ian, says...
2:55pm Wed 13 Jun 07
Ms Duck, Weymouth says...
4:00pm Wed 13 Jun 07
Stuart wrote:More interesting reading of something that's likely to affect the new road too and of DCC's ways:
Some interesting reading there and a good point.
www.weymouth-dorset.
co.uk/nightskies.htm
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John Muscroft, Rotherham says...
4:09pm Wed 13 Jun 07
David, Weymouth says...
6:58pm Wed 13 Jun 07
Have I missed something??
ian, says...
7:04pm Wed 13 Jun 07
David wrote:Well you could always read the above links Dave?
£84.5 Million?? Thought it was £77m.
Have I missed something??
Draw your own conclusions on modern Gov/corp relations and public money ;-)
Ken, Weymouth says...
7:07pm Wed 13 Jun 07
Clearly a needed road as the existing road is just a unhealthy thing for the residents there, however those who think this will relieve traffic congestion and queuing I suspect will be disappointed.
dazza, Liverpool says...
8:19pm Wed 13 Jun 07
scolopax, Weymouth says...
10:22pm Wed 13 Jun 07
chris edwards, weymouth says...
8:02am Thu 14 Jun 07
Pete, Dorchester says...
8:16am Thu 14 Jun 07
ian wrote:You have only got your selves to blame with listening to a lost cause with the objectors. The original cost I believe was somewhere around 34 million
David wrote: £84.5 Million?? Thought it was £77m. Have I missed something??Well you could always read the above links Dave? Draw your own conclusions on modern Gov/corp relations and public money ;-)
Old Broadwey Resident, Broadwey says...
8:41am Thu 14 Jun 07
Jeremy, Weymouth says...
10:25am Thu 14 Jun 07
Old Broadwey Resident wrote:Hear, hear!
It is beginning to look like the long overdue relief road will be completed in my lifetime! Great news for Broadwey,Upwey, Radipole Redlands, Nottington and every other local community blighted by traffic congestion!
Andy, Weymouth says...
10:28am Thu 14 Jun 07
Jeremy wrote:Poor Terry! It must be so hard to give credit to a Labour MP after the failures of successive Tory MPs to make any progress with the road plan.
Terry wrote: Perhaps our Minister for Schools will keep away from activities that are not within his remit now that contractors have been appointedPardon? Of course it was in his remit - it was in his constituency! Anyway, excellent news!
ian, says...
11:31am Thu 14 Jun 07
Pete wrote:Are you saying it was the fault of the objectors for the doubling of cost? I do hoe you are not that silly.
ian wrote:You have only got your selves to blame with listening to a lost cause with the objectors. The original cost I believe was somewhere around 34 million
David wrote: £84.5 Million?? Thought it was £77m. Have I missed something??Well you could always read the above links Dave? Draw your own conclusions on modern Gov/corp relations and public money ;-)
Anyhow, I think they will have the last laugh because although I am on the fence on this matter I have a feeling it will do nothing to improve all the town's traffic at all what happens when all that traffic comes to the end of the new road..were does it go...sameplaces as before =traffic?
zurb, Weymouth says...
12:35pm Thu 14 Jun 07
ian wrote:At present, when existing traffic comes into Weymouth and reaches the Manor roundabout do you have to queue at the roundabout? The answer is no because traffic has dispersed along the route. The problem is getting to the Manor roundabout in the first place. And where will the new road join the existing network? The Manor roundabout! But it will be far easier getting there in the first place because all Upwey, Broadwey, Littlemoor and Preston traffic will have alighted at some point earlier!
Pete wrote:Are you saying it was the fault of the objectors for the doubling of cost? I do hoe you are not that silly. Anyhow, I think they will have the last laugh because although I am on the fence on this matter I have a feeling it will do nothing to improve all the town's traffic at all what happens when all that traffic comes to the end of the new road..were does it go...sameplaces as before =traffic?ian wrote:You have only got your selves to blame with listening to a lost cause with the objectors. The original cost I believe was somewhere around 34 millionDavid wrote: £84.5 Million?? Thought it was £77m. Have I missed something??Well you could always read the above links Dave? Draw your own conclusions on modern Gov/corp relations and public money ;-)
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dave, says...
11:08am Wed 13 Jun 07