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Brimstage Road 'is being destroyed by juggernauts'

2:48pm Tuesday 29th April 2008

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WHEN Aldi opened their distribution depot in Neston, Wirral Council banned articulated lorries from Barnston Road and Thornton Common Road.

The result is these huge lorries have been forced onto Brimstage Road from Clatterbridge to the Gayton roundabout.

Not only are residents awakened before dawn with these juggernauts thundering past our houses, but the road itself is being destroyed.

The road surface and substructure in part is crumbling, leading to pot-holes, deep ridges, cracks and loose materials on the carriageway.

It now appears that Wirral Council have given up repairing the road and all they now do is put up signs saying the road is damaged.

This narrow country road was reconstructed only five or so years ago, but was obviously not built to carry such heavy traffic. What we need to know is why Brimstage Road was made to carry all this extra heavy traffic. Whycan't Barnston Road and Thornton Common Road share the load?

What is Wirral Council now going to do, firstly to repair Brimstage Road, then to stop the same thing happening in the future?

Duncan May,Brimstage Road,Heswall

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Mikey D, says...
10:01pm Tue 29 Apr 08

Duncan raises a really important point; Wirral Council have in effect filtered all the lorries down Brimstage road by blocking off Thornton Hough and Barnston. For the Highways department (part of the Technical Services department run by David Green) to just put up signs saying the road is in disrepair is unacceptable, and I will be raising this matter with my elected MP.

Wirral Council and Mr Green should have blocked off lorries from using the A5137 given that is a very narrow country road, and cannot cope with the amount of lorries currently using it. They should also have contacted Cheshire Council to make sure lorries use the A540 to reach the distribution site.

Come on Mr Green, pull your finger out. To just put up signs saying dangerous road is unacceptable!

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Mikey D, says...
10:01pm Tue 29 Apr 08

Duncan raises a really important point; Wirral Council have in effect filtered all the lorries down Brimstage road by blocking off Thornton Hough and Barnston. For the Highways department (part of the Technical Services department run by David Green) to just put up signs saying the road is in disrepair is unacceptable, and I will be raising this matter with my elected MP.

Wirral Council and Mr Green should have blocked off lorries from using the A5137 given that is a very narrow country road, and cannot cope with the amount of lorries currently using it. They should also have contacted Cheshire Council to make sure lorries use the A540 to reach the distribution site.

Come on Mr Green, pull your finger out. To just put up signs saying dangerous road is unacceptable!

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Mikey D, says...
10:09pm Tue 29 Apr 08

Oops, double comment. I would like to add that Mr Green should have also foreseen this problem given that it was pretty obvious that the road was going to be used more and more by lorries after the restrictions went up elsewhere. Could the Wirral Globe perhaps try and give this some publicity as the road is in a very precarious state at the moment, and is not really safe for cars to use.

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jezza, says...
5:18pm Wed 30 Apr 08

I'd like to know who tarmaced Station Road less than 1 year ago,half of it's come off already!

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NATALIE, rock ferry says...
4:27pm Mon 5 May 08

I AM SO SORRY TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PROBLEM WITH ALL THE LORRIES .LIKE ME AND MY NEIGHBOURS GOD HELP YOU IF YOU LIVED BY US WITH WHAT WE HAVE TO PUT UP WITH ANTI SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR LOUD MUSIC ALL HOURS OF THE DAY AND NIGHT FIGHTING IN THE STRETS.CARS RACING UP AND DOWN OUR STREETS.DRUG DEALERS ROUND THE CORNER.AND THE COUNCIL DONT GIVE A DAM LIVING WERE YOU LIVE SOUNDS LIKE HEAVEN SO GET A LIFE AND STOP COMPLAINING AND YES WE DO WORK HARD ME AND MOST OF MY NEIGHBOURS VERY HARD

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mike, says...
1:26am Tue 6 May 08

Calm down! What's that got to do with the issue of lorries wrecking our roads? You're right about the council not giving a ****, but at least you get some money spent on you- the council gives no money to any place whose name doesn't start with birkenhead.

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jezza, says...
10:59am Tue 6 May 08

Natalie,you make a very good point although the big letters were hard work to read! I know where I'd rather live.

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David, Higher Bebington says...
11:22pm Sat 10 May 08

The fact remains that the Aldi distribution centre site in Neston is unsuitable and should never have been put there in the first place. All links between the A540 and Birkenhead are problematic; the A5137 link is just as unsuitable for HGV traffic as the B5136 (Thornton Common Road) and A551 (Barnston Road). The best solution would have been for the centre to be sited adjacent to the M53 or A41. The traffic planners should have forecast the problems before giving the centre the go-ahead.

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mike, says...
12:11am Mon 12 May 08

That's a good point David. Both Cheshire and Wirral Council should have come to this arrangement when the plans to build the distribution centre at Neston were drawn up. Instead Cheshire Council gave permission for it to be built on the A540, Wirral Council objected, but had no jurisdiction. There needs to be more co-operation on those matters. Instead w have a situation were it is Wirral roads that are taking the strain of Lorries heading for a distribution centre given permission by another council. Not the first time that Heswall and surrounding areas have been made to pay for other people's convenience.

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David, Higher Bebington says...
12:09pm Tue 20 May 08

Wirral Council could still solve the problem by imposing HGV restrictions on the A5137. This would force Aldi drivers to take the longer route by travelling southbound along A540 (Chester High Road) and approaching the M53 via the A550 (Welsh Road). Was this ever considered as an option?

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john davies, birkenhead says...
7:09am Fri 23 May 08

as an ex aldi driver i can assure you no lgv driver wants to disturb or upset locals or use roads not made for lgv/s drivers are ordered to take shortest routes regardless.profit is the only priority.people and safety secondary.lobby ur council and mp s before there is a tradegy.its no good after the event.

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