Relief Road work about to get noisy? That’s missing the point.

Following a local media headline that ‘work on the Relief Road is about to get noisy’ the Weymouth Relief Road team is reassuring local residents that night working to lift railway bridge beams into place near Manor Roundabout should not keep them awake at night.

As we’ll be working over the railway line we can only do the work at night. The point of the team’s news release to local media was to tell residents about the work, so they knew what was happening if they saw lights or trucks moving about in the middle of the night. Residents close to the area have been informed of the works taking place by letter. As with any construction work there will be some noise as the beams are lifted into place, but it should be kept to a minimum – apart from our responsibility to the local community, the planning authority wouldn’t allow noisy work overnight.

Please comment below if you have any questions.

Railway bridge

Piling for the Manor railway bridge finished in September and work on the abutments is going well.

It will take until spring 2010 for the bridge to be finished. Work next year will include connecting the bridge to the new Manor Roundabout and to the new Two Mile Roundabout.

New road layout

Work to build a new Manor Roundabout for the Weymouth Relief Road is getting underway.

On Monday 5 October work will start to install the temporary road layout that will ensure motorists are not disrupted by the construction of the new Manor Roundabout.

Read more here.

Scale!

If you had any doubt about the scale of the machines and the volume of earth material being used, this image might help you.

This banksman is controlling the site traffic entering and leaving the Lodmoor section of the scheme. Behind him you can see the raised ground level for the Two Mile Roundabout – that’s a lot of earth!

Support columns going up

This is the start of the construction of the columns that will support the Manor railway bridge.

The bridge will carry the road from Manor Roundabout over the railway line to the Two Mile Coppice Roundabout.

Weekend work update

Skanska will be working extended hours this weekend in the area from Southdown Ridge to Mercery Road.

• 8am – 5pm, Saturday 15 August
• 9am – 5pm, Sunday 16 August

Due to adverse weather conditions, Skanska were not able to work last weekend and have been granted permission to work the weekend of 22 and 23 August in lieu.

The work involved is excavation on Southdown Ridge, running the excavated material down the line of the scheme to Lodmoor landfill, steel work on the railway bridge near Manor Roundabout and resurfacing of Lodmoor landfill.

Piling complete

Piling has now finished at Manor Roundabout. Over the last two weeks this rig has been putting in the foundations for the Manor Railway Bridge, which will carry the relief raod over the railway line.

The bridge will take around eight months to complete.

New photos on Flickr

A new set of aerial photos is now on Flickr. They cover from the top of the scheme on Ridgeway down to the Manor Roundabout.

They really help visualise where the road is going.