5:52pm Monday 23rd November 2009
By Paula Roberts
THE man behind the controversial A338 Spur Road works said yesterday’s traffic delays were “not acceptable”.
Project leader David Diaz, from Dorset County Council, agreed the queues experienced at rush hour were worse than predicted and something would have to change if the tailbacks continue into the week.
Council chiefs moved the road works from the southbound carriageway to the northbound yesterday following calls from the business community that it was having an affect on trade at their busiest time of the year.
Speaking to the Echo, Mr Diaz said: “We were concerned to hear of such lengthy tailbacks.
“We moved the works to support the commercial centre of Bournemouth during the Christmas period but we do appreciate the tailbacks that resulted this morning were worse than before.
“We will monitor it over the next couple of days to see whether it was just worse this morning for some reason.
“It is not acceptable we had problems on both carriageways and previously it was only on one.
“If it does continue over the next couple of days we will have to seriously look again.
“What we hoped to do was help the commercial centre but it affected both directions which is not the impact we wanted nor did we expect. We expected it to be worse northbound, not southbound.
“The works need to be done – there is no easy solution.”
He said the cones needed to remain out to ensure the safety of the people working on site and it would not be feasible to carry out the work at night.
He added he had listened to people’s concerns about lack of signage and communication and the council will be putting up additional signage.
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