We highlighted the extremely poor state of Aberdare to council officers last year, and we’re delighted that the Council will be resurfacing the Aberdare carriageway in early April. Residents should very shortly receive a detailed letter from the Council’s engineering service – please let us know if you don’t get one.
The work will be carried out by the Council’s contractor, VolkerHighways. The construction process will be carried out in two separate stages, which will be the removal of the existing road surface, following which a new road surface will be laid and the road markings added.
It is intended that work will commence from the 7th April 2010 and weather permitting the works will be completed on 12th April 2010. The road will be subject to a temporary traffic order during the period of work and will be closed to traffic. Residents will be advised to observe all notices fixed to posts and lamp columns. Any vehicles left in a suspended area or illegally parked, are liable to be removed by the Council’s parking enforcement contractor or the police - so Please check the parking restrictions daily. Anyone who is registered disabled, or would require any special arrangements while this work is undertaken, should contact the Highways Engineering department once they receive the formal letter.
We have stressed to the Council the need to avoid anything that makes the knock-on parking effect worse in any way, ie taking account of this closure in terms of any bay suspensions. We will also monitor this closely to ensure the work does not slip.
The Aberdare resurfacing had been planned for a little while, but obviously there are other roads with poor surfaces, and the snow of course adversely affected carriageways. As a result this has required the Council to reassess the condition of all our carriageways in the borough using more recent information from our Maintenance Engineers and Contractors’ Inspection Reports, rather than through the yearly inspection which was last carried out in February 2009. Officers are looking at this now and will provide a list of roads for carriageway resurfacing in 2010/11 financial year by the beginning of April. The intention is to carry out the planned resurfacing works starting in August.
Reactive maintenance on any unsafe road surfaces is ongoing, as always. Do get in touch with us if there are problems that aren’t sorted, but the best way to report it is either:
• Go to www.camden.gov.uk website - go to environment and the quick link on the right hand side to ‘report a street problem’
• If urgent and dangerous via telephone on 020 7974 2015 (during normal working hours) or 020 7974 4444 (out of hours)
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