This project should have been underway now ( A63 upgrade ) Expect a further delay to 2018 when a further raft of cutbacks are announced.
A new bridge crossing the A63 due to have been built by next Easter to carry crowds to and from one of the main events areas for City of Culture has been delayed until 2018. It came after the Highways Agency told Hull Council that it would not be completed until November - just months after making public assurances that it would be ready next Spring. It’s a huge blow to the city, but Hull Council leader Steve Brady insisted this morning they were confident that contingency plans would work and insisted the Hull 2017 team were “relaxed” about the situation. Coun Brady said they were not prepared to accept the disruption caused by works on the bridge during nearly the City of Culture year. He said: “Of course it is very, very disappointing because of the assurances that we were given. “But of course when they cam back and said they couldn’t complete it until November and they were willing to go ahead, we said no, that’s not acceptable and that’s why the decision was made to start it in early 2018. “The idea is that the A63 scheme starts at the same time so they will both be dovetailed into the total scheme. “The Culture company is very relaxed about it and very relaxed with the contingency arranegments.” The contingency plans, he said, involved widening the central gap where people waited to cross the busy road. Only last October Highways England Project Manager Jimmy Holmes said: “Now planning permission and funding has been granted, we are on track to enable the bridge to be in place by Easter 2017 as an early phase of the main Castle Street scheme.” Read more: http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/11-5m-bridge-for-hull-won-t-be-ready-for-city-of-culture-1-7787207#ixzz42UoZs9O3
RELAXED !!!! Is that Bradys answer to everything??? A relaxed attitude is why the City will be an half finished building site for COC
Steven Brady is akin to a swan...........calm and serene above the water but paddling like a ****ing nutcase beneath. ****ing dinosaur.
The whole system here is wrong to the core. Everythings a snails pace and there isnt a challenge to it.
No doubt Peter Levy will grill him tonight on Look North and he'll back track and blame it all on someone else. Also this Mancey character is keeping very quiet.
Uncallengable mate so they can do what they want. I know the bridge thing is out of their hands but the rest isnt and its very badly organised.
Wrong use of the swan metaphor, Brady is surely the other way round. Should we not go back further and attach some blame to the local East Hull MP who was the Secretary of State for Transport in the late 90's and could have got Castle Street sorted out back then at a fraction of today's cost?
The local authorities told the highway agency to delay A63 til 2018 This might be the by product of that
Aye, cos that's how it works. Nothing g to do with the other on going issues that are out of either ' s control.
One of the biggest shames that seems to go unmentioned, is that nobody seems to have tapped in to the wealth of knowledge and experience on boards like these. I'm sure people are leading by example, so we can see their work on show during the CoC.
Can't really blame the Council for this one, they've only asked for it to be delayed because they don't want it being built during CoC2017. Once it became clear that it wouldn't actually be able to open early enough in 2017 to be of any use, it was a fairly reasonable decision.
Princes Quay bridge We remain committed to constructing a footbridge at Princes Quay in Hull and we are working hard on the plans. We have jointly taken the decision with Hull City Council to reschedule construction work to avoid disruption to the City of Culture celebrations in 2017. This decision to reschedule the work was taken after results from the recent ground investigation work revealed it would not be possible to open the bridge until autumn 2017. This is due to a number of technical issues relating to the foundations of the bridge. More work is needed on the existing marina wall before engineers can start installing foundations for the bridge. The archaeological and ground investigation work will continue to take place on site over the next few weeks and will inform construction work which will now start at a later date. The bridge will be built after 2017 and a final decision will be made on the timing of this once traffic and environmental assessments have been completed this summer. Archaeology work in Trinity Burial Ground We have successfully completed archaeological investigations at Trinity Burial Ground. This work has been extremely important in helping us to plan for the construction of the Castle Street improvement scheme. The investigation has also provided a significant amount of historical information about the burial ground and Hull itself. If you are interested in finding out more, download our fact sheet. The burial ground will fully reopened by the end of March 2016. Archaeology work Marina and North side of Castle Street We’re investigating parts of Hull’s medieval defences to help understand more about the history of Hull and the people who lived here. Around 700 years ago brick walls and ditches were built to protect the town from invaders, but these have since crumbled away or been removed. Our work aims to discover where the old walls were built. It will also mean that archaeologists can find out more about what they were made of and how they were constructed. The work near the Marina will be completed in mid-March. Why not come along and see for yourself? We’ve arranged some viewing areas so members of the public can watch the archaeologists at work:
