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Post by 3putts on Jul 10, 2019 5:23:10 GMT
Closed due to safety concerns fuk me it's only a poxy little flyover how can they fuk it up?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2019 5:35:04 GMT
In Stoke, even the impossible is possible.
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Post by felonious on Jul 10, 2019 6:12:10 GMT
That's going to cause chaos. I noticed last week that the underside has been painted in a nice shade of red.
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Post by zerps on Jul 10, 2019 6:34:03 GMT
Any good reason or shall we get our pitch forks out first?
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Post by Northy on Jul 10, 2019 12:32:35 GMT
Any good reason or shall we get our pitch forks out first? 3 puts is already building a guillotine, no need for pitch forks. How old is the bridge about 30 years if it was built around the garden festival time? It would need regular checks and maintenance, but all things would deteriorate and have faults, it does take a lot of traffic. |
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Post by RichieBarkerOut! on Jul 10, 2019 13:29:43 GMT
Any good reason or shall we get our pitch forks out first? 3 puts is already building a guillotine, no need for pitch forks. How old is the bridge about 30 years if it was built around the garden festival time? It would need regular checks and maintenance, but all things would deteriorate and have faults, it does take a lot of traffic. No, it's a fair bit younger than the Garden Festival, I reckon it was mid '90's. |
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Post by 3putts on Jul 10, 2019 14:06:53 GMT
3 puts is already building a guillotine, no need for pitch forks. How old is the bridge about 30 years if it was built around the garden festival time? It would need regular checks and maintenance, but all things would deteriorate and have faults, it does take a lot of traffic. No, it's a fair bit younger than the Garden Festival, I reckon it was mid '90's. I would expect all bridges are checked at regular intervals thus any signs of deterioration could be rectified before any tragic concesuences. There was a bridge collapse not long ago with tragic consequences I hope that never happens again. I have just crossed the tallest bridge in Europe and didn't dare think about what if? |
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Post by madstokie on Jul 10, 2019 17:36:51 GMT
looks like there's a problem with an expansion bolt which connects both lanes together waiting for an expert to look into it
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Post by franklin66 on Jul 10, 2019 17:46:20 GMT
A quick squirt of no nails should do the job.
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Post by supersimonstainrod on Jul 10, 2019 17:51:19 GMT
Any good reason or shall we get our pitch forks out first? 3 puts is already building a guillotine, no need for pitch forks. How old is the bridge about 30 years if it was built around the garden festival time? It would need regular checks and maintenance, but all things would deteriorate and have faults, it does take a lot of traffic. Agreed,the Oldbury viaduct is a prime example,undergoing a huge programme of works currently, but I seem remember two separate periods (without the present disruption,) when they were working on the supports below,('concrete cancer?') or something like that. |
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Post by swampmongrel on Jul 10, 2019 20:15:27 GMT
It’s a fucking ace flyover. Iconic.
Hope it can be saved. 🙏
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Post by franklin66 on Jul 10, 2019 20:42:38 GMT
I'll wager some bright spark will come in a tell us they can fix it for x million just watch.
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Post by questionable on Jul 11, 2019 6:06:23 GMT
A quick squirt of no nails should do the job. That gorilla stuff 100% would do it, unlike the adhesive strips that supposedly stick pictures on the wall, total crap. |
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Post by mattador78 on Jul 11, 2019 6:17:30 GMT
I'll wager some bright spark will come in a tell us they can fix it for x million just watch. Stoke council office Monday morning 😉 |
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Post by 3putts on Jul 11, 2019 8:10:27 GMT
I'll wager some bright spark will come in a tell us they can fix it for x million just watch. Stoke council office Monday morning 😉 That's the answer Monorail |
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Post by DentySCFC on Jul 11, 2019 20:04:04 GMT
I'll wager some bright spark will come in a tell us they can fix it for x million just watch. Stoke council office Monday morning 😉 What worked for Ogdenville and North Haverbrook, can work in S-O-T. |
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Post by countofmontecristo on Jul 11, 2019 21:20:21 GMT
3 puts is already building a guillotine, no need for pitch forks. How old is the bridge about 30 years if it was built around the garden festival time? It would need regular checks and maintenance, but all things would deteriorate and have faults, it does take a lot of traffic. No, it's a fair bit younger than the Garden Festival, I reckon it was mid '90's. Im pretty sure it was up for the festival - seem to remember going over it in the pit van before I could drive and looking into the festival site?! |
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Post by alsagerstokie on Jul 11, 2019 21:47:22 GMT
Stoke council office Monday morning 😉 What worked for Ogdenville and North Haverbrook, can work in S-O-T. Who would you say is the S-O-T version of Mr Burns Chaps? |
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Post by RichieBarkerOut! on Jul 11, 2019 22:25:03 GMT
No, it's a fair bit younger than the Garden Festival, I reckon it was mid '90's. Im pretty sure it was up for the festival - seem to remember going over it in the pit van before I could drive and looking into the festival site?! They changed the road layout for the Garden Festival as you used to be able to take a right turn coming out of Etruria Vale Road whereas now you are forced to turn left onto the dual carriageway. It's possible that they built it at the same time as Festival Park around 1989, but I'm still sure it's later than that. It certainly was not built at the same time as the dual carriageway being built as the flyover was put in to deal with the through traffic at the round-a-bout. |
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Post by zerps on Jul 12, 2019 6:47:15 GMT
It’s our golden gate bridge
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Post by chigstoke on Jul 12, 2019 7:51:17 GMT
What worked for Ogdenville and North Haverbrook, can work in S-O-T. Who would you say is the S-O-T version of Mr Burns Chaps? Peter Coates  |
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Post by Scrotnig on Aug 3, 2019 23:12:32 GMT
Late eighties this was built, can recall John Evington on Signal talking about 'the two flyover construction sites', as Hanford was being built at the same time.
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Post by harryburrows on Aug 4, 2019 0:22:07 GMT
A quick squirt of no nails should do the job. That gorilla stuff 100% would do it, unlike the adhesive strips that supposedly stick pictures on the wall, total crap. As are those little Velcro ones |
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Post by questionable on Aug 4, 2019 6:10:36 GMT
That gorilla stuff 100% would do it, unlike the adhesive strips that supposedly stick pictures on the wall, total crap. As are those little Velcro ones Yes |
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Post by innocentbystander on Aug 24, 2019 17:52:24 GMT
Anyone who has had to do any business with the council will not be surprised that it's still closed.
Six weeks now.
It could be:
A)staff off sick or on holiday
B)elf and safety paperwork
C)complicated distribution of brown envelopes containing our council tax or contractor's cash
D)jobsworths avoiding any sort of responsibility or decision making
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Post by felonious on Aug 24, 2019 22:00:03 GMT
Anyone who has had to do any business with the council will not be surprised that it's still closed. Six weeks now. It could be: A)staff off sick or on holiday B)elf and safety paperwork C)complicated distribution of brown envelopes containing our council tax or contractor's cash D)jobsworths avoiding any sort of responsibility or decision making Not surprised by this comment. I was speaking to someone last week chasing up a particular council section after 8 weeks who was told that the person dealing with the matter had been on holiday for two weeks. Who cares it's only the public, they don't operate in the real world and efficiency, what's that? |
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Post by Bojan Mackey on Aug 24, 2019 22:21:35 GMT
I have to deal with councils in my job every so often.
It frequently takes almost two months to even get an E-mail from them.
It’ll be shut until 2020, minimum.
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Post by tuum on Aug 25, 2019 10:36:51 GMT
No, it's a fair bit younger than the Garden Festival, I reckon it was mid '90's. Im pretty sure it was up for the festival - seem to remember going over it in the pit van before I could drive and looking into the festival site?! Definitely in the 80's. I was working in Summer Holidays whilst at Uni and remember the bridge slides being put in place. I finished Uni in 1988 so it would be around that time, possibly a year later for final completion. |
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Post by mattyd on Aug 25, 2019 10:52:18 GMT
I thought way after the festival TBH, I agree with RBO, circa 90's
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Post by wizzardofdribble on Aug 25, 2019 20:20:16 GMT
I have to deal with the council too in one of my jobs and I think it's fair to say that they are fucking hopeless.
That flyover closure is causing chaos between 4 and 6 in the late afternoon.
It should have been sorted by now.
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