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...is this now the easy option for any sort of road-works!? Must be cheaper than hiring traffic lights!
Need a small hole digging - no problem - just close the road.
Do the job in a day then leave signage in place for 3 more days* until the signage contractor collects them.
(*to leave you guessing as to wether road is still closed or not! 🙂 )
Great for riding though - I think I've only had one or two cases where I've ridden past Road Closed signs and found the road was completely impassable.
Yeah, but it's good for bikes as most of the time you can just ride through and have quiet roads on both sides! A432 from Yate to Bristol is blummin brilliant at the moment!
Yep, They did it on my Commute last week, it was great it meant I could just breeze past the un-manned works and pedal the next couple of miles to work unmolested by pricks in cars for a change 😉
Several long term closed roads with fheckall work happening in Derbyshire.
But the eeeejits at DCC (you know, them that like to dump contaninated road planings and the like on historic off-road routes) further obstruct them so cyclists have to go on main roads instead.
- Beeley moor and Cromford - Crich being 2 examples.that were closed for 2 years with no work happening (Beeley about 4 and counting). Cromford-Crich now re-closed as another bit of the same road is broken and not suitable for cars (but would be fine for me on a push bike, if not blocked)
Yeah, but it’s good for bikes as most of the time you can just ride through and have quiet roads on both sides!
Not near HS2 routes you can't, road closed really does mean road closed round here 😕
Several long term closed roads with fheckall work happening in Derbyshire.
Fellow Derbyshire bod here - hence my post! 🙂
The Fibre boys are having great fun in Matlock too - close a road then whack traffic lights on the other roads people are like to use! 😱
When DCC leave cycle access in place on roads closed to cars they get all the grief from the kind of people who will never shut up... so they close them to everyone for an easier life. Reminds you who things are run for.
We get these in rural Suffolk. There's a choice of roads along the way any one of which may be closed whilst the through route is still open. And the closure is 10 miles along from the sign. Guess wrong and it's narrow roads and dodging the cyclists out on the quietways. (Another useless and toothless initiative in the county, no limit on the road just watch out for walkers, cyclists, horses and horse drawn vehicles, plus someone made some money on putting up some pretty green signs).
I've had one or two recently that were properly closed.
My biggest gripe at the moment is sets of traffic lights where both are on red! How have we ended up with Gucci, wireless LED ones and nobody said "should it be a requirement that they can't be on red at the same time"?
Put a Closed for ULEZ study on them, and overnight they will magically disappear.
@sandwich I'm also in Suffolk, having only ever seen a quiet lane sign near Thetford they've blossomed over here by the coast now. Exactly the same roads as they've always been and just as likely/unlikely to encounter cars and or mega-tractors. Complete nonsense.
Back to the OP, I always delight in riding through a closed road! 🤣
When DCC leave cycle access in place on roads closed to cars they get all the grief
Police issued signs for all road works to combat all those cycling round the council road closed signs.
Several long term closed roads with fheckall work happening in Derbyshire.
But the eeeejits at DCC (you know, them that like to dump contaninated road planings and the like on historic off-road routes) further obstruct them so cyclists have to go on main roads instead.
Didn't you get the memo? It's a DCC rebranding excercise. All signage as you enter Derbyshire will be changed to a Road Ahead Closed sign. Saves money and keeps everyone guessing. You missed out Snitterton Road, Lees Lane, the Crich-Holloway road and several others locally which they haven't done anything about for years (apparently if the road isn't on a bus route they aren't even thinking about it).
Personally I preferred the Derbyshire supports nuclear free zones signs. At least that showed some sort of hopeless idealism rather than just being hopeless
Beeley Moor open to cyclists, according to a club chat last night
The Fibre boys are having great fun in Matlock too – close a road then whack traffic lights on the other roads people are like to use! 😱
The Darley Dale A6 Campus of the Derwent University of Holeology never sleeps in their unending quest for the perfect traffic jam
Personally I preferred the Derbyshire supports nuclear free zones signs
Like the nuclear waste dumped in Crich and then a load of houses built on/next to it!! 🤣🤣💀💀
Round here, (Cheshire) whoever is in charge of the signs likes to put them at least 3 or 4 major junctions before the road is actually closed with no indication of actually where its restricted. So most of the time the route you want is open, but you don't actually know that until you get to the closure or chicken out and go for one of the randomly signed diversions, (if there is one).
****ing useless.
When DCC leave cycle access in place on roads closed to cars they get all the grief from the kind of people who will never shut up… so they close them to everyone for an easier life. Reminds you who things are run for.
Yep, that was the root cause of all the fuss over Snake Pass. When that road is closed it is genuinely stunning to ride and you get all sorts of people who would never normally ride it coming out to try. But just because Fat Family Gammon will moan like **** that they can't drive the SUV along it and it's therefore not fair that these tax-dodging cyclists get free rein, DCC go all overboard and militant about it.
I ignore most, even if it involves moving a barrier as there is no sign of workers. I did ignore one a few years ago, but it really was closed - a bridge over the river Clwyd in North Wales had washed away - no way over, even paddling. It's still closed a few years later as it was 'listed' - needs re-building correctly and will cost a fortune.
Yeah, but it’s good for bikes as most of the time you can just ride through and have quiet roads on both sides!
Done that many times, even when there are blokes working; I ask nicely and they let me through. However once we rode about 5 miles along a deserted closed lane and found an enormous mud and rock ravine where they'd dug out a culvert. Interesting scramble that was, as it would have added about 15 miles to our route...
There is a small hamlet on my route home.
I swear to god over 8 years every time someone digs a hole in it the traffic lights go haywire then the same old biddy in a blue honda jazz refuses to go through despite people flashing her to come on and waving.
There are strict rules on safety zone width between work area and traffic, and a minimum width for one way traffic. If that can't be achieved the road gets closed... If you take a chance and anyone gets injured/killed, you are criminally liable and can be jailed.
I'm sitting exams tomorrow to renew my qualification.
fossy
I ignore most, even if it involves moving a barrier as there is no sign of workers
We report drivers like you to the police. And it's why I have to park across the road behind the closure signs, to stop drivers trying to drive under the boom of hoist operating in the road with cables hanging low. You're also driving without insurance when you pass a road closed sign without permission.
PS I'm not excusing poorly run works with nothing happening, or badly signed diversions. Especially when the badly signed diversion of another company means my works have to be aborted due to drivers being incorrectly diverted down the wrong roads!
PPS There is also a maximum width for one way traffic, because if we leave the live lane too wide, drivers try and squeeze through and end up losing wind mirrors, getting too close to workers, and getting cones stuck under their cars.
We've got a few around me at the moment. There's a crossroad in the middle of the village. One Division sign points left, another points right.
Never yet been stopped by a road closure on my bike. I have had to ford a river at one closure for bridge repairs. I had the pleasure of riding along a brand new not yet opened dual carriageway in the west of Ireland - after asking the guys working on it. Always a bit worrying when a sign says closed 20 miles ahead though.
I think I will need to abide by the current road closure on the Pacific Highway in California when I get there next month. I read some guys have sneaked through after 7pm when the site is unmanned but if you can't get through it's a 45 mile backtrack. If you are caught trying it's a $5000 fine. Anyway, a big landslide is riskier to pass than roadworks.
@fossy That sounds like the bridge near Llanerch Hall that I usually ride near when I've visited family in recent years, last I read it sounded like the rebuild was tied up in lots of red tape, because it was never built/designed for the amount and type of traffic it's had in modern times!
Closer to home in Hampshire, Blind Lane near Horton Heath has been deemed a closed road for years on google, but the anti-vehicle barriers were removed at least a year ago.
I keep meaning to check out Fir Tree Lane just up the road from Blind Lane, because that's supposedly closed until Xmas, presumably to do with setting up infrastructure for the new estate between Allington and Burnetts Lanes.
Never yet been stopped by a road closure on my bike.
I’d like to think there’s one a few miles from me that might make you think twice, even the grommets on BMX/trials bikes and scooters have backed off. Once the underlying surface stops sliding downhill, it looks like a £6m job to rebuild about half a mile of road.
You could probably ride this:
But this might prove problematic…
Think you could ignore the ‘Road Closed’ signs and blithely ride on past? They are there for a reason!
There's been one near here literally for a few weeks, strava tells me I first cycled past it on the 8th July and it was there last Thursday.
Just at one end of a minor road, nothing at the other end (and nothing much to access besides famers fields and a barn that's just starting renovation). There some evidence of collapsed wall half way along but it was tidied up long since and I'm not sure it would have blocked the road to motor traffic anyway.
I always ignore on the bike, yes of course there's a chance it's properly impassable, but I've not had to turn back yet.
Like the nuclear waste dumped in Crich and then a load of houses built on/next to it!! 🤣🤣💀💀
Is there still a reactor in Derby?
We had road closed a bit north of here. The motorway had finally slipped into the valley.
"Sometimes there is a wolf."
But in Derbyshire its nearly always just sheep.
Where is that count zero? I remember looking at a road like that on the Isle of Wight 25 yrs ago somewhere except the middle bit had gone in the sea!
has some one decided to build a house on a concrete raft on that landslide in the the last pic?
I went through one last night (near Sidmouth, Devon) it was genuinely was only wide enough for peds and bikes.
However, when I got to the far end a lady in a T5 was going around the signs to try her luck. I stopped and told her that the road was really closed and that there was no way she would fit. She chose to not believe me and carried on 🤷♂️ you try, but some people!?
Is there still a reactor in Derby?
Rolls Royce nuclear division is still there. It was their low-level waste dumped in the old quarries around Crich. Dumping stopped in 2002 due to local protests.
Broken road up by Mam Tor is definitely closed to cars but perfectly navigable on a bike or on foot.
Not a great photo and didn't want to link to the Daily Nazi who have lots of photos of it for some reason.
Inspired by this thread I went for a run on a road that was marked as closed last night. I would never run on it when it's open as it's narrow, windy, has no footpath and is used as a fast rat-run.
Turn out, despite it being marked as closed on the council site and there being signs up at either end it wasn't closed at all. I had to bail into a field half way down to avoid being run over.
Not happy.
The other method of road closed signs is to put them up 100m past a roundabout where you should divert. Brilliant when you have a trailer and have to reverse back to the next junction to turn around
@burko73 - it’s the B4069 near Bradenstoke, from Chippenham to Lyneham. To get to Lyneham, (former RAF base, now MOD training centre) it’s a detour via Calne. As to the cause, it’s not the concrete pad for the house that’s the issue, the chap building the house decided to get a few hundred tons of soil (possibly a thousand or so) trucked in to level the plot for his wife to exercise her horses on, then it rained.
Dauntsey Banks, as that stretch of road is known, is notorious for the surface breaking up, due to the road switchbacking up the side of a fairly steep hill, which is mainly wet clay and desperately wants to join the flat ground below.
All that extra weight, with lots of water added to it, just slid down the hillside like a large, soggy bulldozer and shoved the entire stretch of road down with it. It’s become an enormous inconvenience for locals above and below the slide, and an incredible headache for the council and their highways engineers! The subsurface is still moving and nobody’s certain when it’s going to stabilise enough to even investigate the situation properly, let alone how the ever loving **** they’re going to fix it.
Oh, and it continues to rain in these parts.
The slip is the section just below the road designation on this section of map…
