TTS breaks its promise over Beaumont work
Wednesday 25th March 2009, 2:58PM GMT.
TRENCHES have been dug on a newly-resurfaced road despite an embargo on work there until at least 2010.
But Transport Minister Mike Jackson (pictured) said that the area of Route de la Haule between Beaumont and Bel Royal had been worked on four times in the last few months because there was no alternative.
He said that individual property connections were required and there was no reasonable alternative means of connection. Therefore, the embargo had to be lifted.
The four incidents related to two gas connections, one water connection and a burst water main. He was responding to a question in the States from Deputy Sean Power.
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They make the rules, they break the rules. Where ever there is a development, there are road works. If Jersey continues to let property devlopers build, then roads will continue to be dug up.
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No change at TTS then? No way, they do it their way.
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You’ve gotta larf ain’t yer !!!
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Working on a burst water main is an unforseeable emergency,and understandable.
But who agreed that the new connections were valid despoilation of the new surface?
They should have been told to wait until 2010.
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Be thankful you get the roads re-surfaced. Here in Reading they don’t get done at all. They are just continually patched. The freezing weather last month created a number of new potholes. Some of these now have white lines drawn round them, while others still await discovery by the council!
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What a stupid waste of money
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I’m not sure why people on here are ranting at TTS. It’s Jersy Water and Jersey Gas that have broken the embargo. The installer of the new service should be paying for the road to be resurfaced for 15m either side of the trench so a better finished surface is obtained not one that is marred by trenches. Of course, that is then paid for out of your utility bills.
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I wish my road would be tarmaced it occasionaly gets patched but the patched patches are wearing a bit thin now. I don’t think it has been resurfaced in 30 years. And there’s me thinking GST would mean things getting better!
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I also wouldn’t mind going on mains sewerage especially as I believe in protecting the environment. Why don’t the States sort this pollution of the environmant out? Very poor as far as I am concerned. Mind you this is only Jersey and not the mainland where 95% plus are on mains drains. Why are we only at 85% in such a rich small easy to connect up island?
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“to place an official prohibition on” aka embargo. I suspect(?) that all the residents in the area were given prior notice of the resurfacing and to make any new connections asap prior to the road being resurfaced, failing which they would have to wait several years! Emergency repairs understandable. The main man at TTS should of said politely no, not the moment, hence the reason they used the word embargo, TTS broke their own ruling then!!!!
Why bother to resurface an arterial stretch of road with a 30mph limit which lets face it,is always being dug up, causing traffic delays,seems a waste of my income tax unless of course the coefficient of friction was causing a safety issue , but it looked ok to me!!!!!! Has the embargo (ha ha ha)been reinstated.
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