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New roadworks - just a heads up
« on: May 22, 2012, 11:04:45 AM »
On the DT website this morning:

DRIVERS were stuck in traffic chaos this morning (May 22) when roadworks got under way in Chesterfield.

Rush hour traffic queued around the Donut roundabout and the train station as water mains improvements started on Holywell Street and St Mary’s Gate.

The work is set to take around five weeks as 800 metres of pipe is replaced by Severn Trent Water.

Temporary traffic restrictions are in place on busy roads.

Holywell Street and St Mary’s Gate is one way allowing only inbound traffic from Markham Road Roundabout.

Outbound traffic from Holywell Street will be diverted via Durrant Road on to A61 Bypass.

http://bit.ly/JyPg04
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Re: New roadworks - just a heads up
« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2012, 11:44:17 AM »
Am I reading this right?
If I'm in the car park opposite the Spire and I want to go to Currys, I'm going to have to go into town, round the Donut down Durrant road, past the hotel, onto the Inner relief road, down to the roundabout back up to Markham Road?
Or up Saltergate down to West Bars and come back on myself?
By my reckoning thats a trip of 2 miles or 1.5 miles instead of about 0.5.
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Re: New roadworks - just a heads up
« Reply #2 on: May 22, 2012, 11:45:38 AM »
Welcome to my world, Jon.  >:(
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Re: New roadworks - just a heads up
« Reply #3 on: May 22, 2012, 11:56:54 AM »
You can go up and down St Mary's Gate. You cant get to it from the donut. Unless you go up elder way, left onto knifesmithgate and down Stephensons Place lol
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Re: New roadworks - just a heads up
« Reply #4 on: May 22, 2012, 11:58:38 AM »
so where does South bound stop?
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Re: New roadworks - just a heads up
« Reply #5 on: May 22, 2012, 01:25:54 PM »
that would probably also explain why traffic on sheffield road was queued from the donut roundabout right down to donkey derby roundabout this morning...
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Re: New roadworks - just a heads up
« Reply #6 on: May 22, 2012, 01:31:42 PM »
Yep - you're probably right. Folks I know that were about and about are finding delays everywhere - which makes a refreshing change from the Saltergate misery of the last few months.

Oh, and welcome to the forums loopy! :)
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Re: New roadworks - just a heads up
« Reply #7 on: May 22, 2012, 01:55:34 PM »
Quote from: loopy on May 22, 2012, 01:25:54 PM
that would probably also explain why traffic on sheffield road was queued from the donut roundabout right down to donkey derby roundabout this morning...


Welcome loopy, I take you were stuck in the traffic then? Very frustrating !!  :(
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Re: New roadworks - just a heads up
« Reply #8 on: May 22, 2012, 02:13:01 PM »
Quote from: loopy on May 22, 2012, 01:25:54 PM
that would probably also explain why traffic on sheffield road was queued from the donut roundabout right down to donkey derby roundabout this morning...

Welcome from me too loopy  ;)
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Re: New roadworks - just a heads up
« Reply #9 on: May 22, 2012, 02:26:43 PM »
Welcome loopy - with a name like that you'll fit in well here  ;D



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Re: New roadworks - just a heads up
« Reply #10 on: May 22, 2012, 03:24:48 PM »
Quote from: therealjr on May 22, 2012, 11:58:38 AM
so where does South bound stop?
At the moment it is stopped at the old post office on Holywell St, Jon. You could still turn south out of Corporation St etc onto St Mary's Gate today, but as the works creep southwards, that'll probably change. 30 mins to do from the angling shop to the bottom of Sheff Road today - the search for the rat run starts tomorrow!
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Re: New roadworks - just a heads up
« Reply #11 on: May 22, 2012, 05:48:53 PM »
Quote from: Big Dave on May 22, 2012, 02:26:43 PM
Welcome loopy - with a name like that you'll fit in well here  ;D

My thoughts exactly. Welcome to ChesterfieldOnline loopy  ;)
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Re: New roadworks - just a heads up
« Reply #12 on: May 22, 2012, 08:42:26 PM »
Quote from: Old Cruser on May 22, 2012, 01:55:34 PM

Welcome loopy, I take you were stuck in the traffic then? Very frustrating !!  :(

Thank you all for the welcome..

No luckily I was walking the other way to Asda/Iceland and noticed how bad it was..
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« Reply #13 on: May 22, 2012, 09:08:04 PM »
Luckly for you then Loopy.
Try driving round town and earn a living  ;)
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Re: New roadworks - just a heads up
« Reply #14 on: May 23, 2012, 06:44:59 PM »
Quote from: therealjr on May 22, 2012, 11:58:38 AM
so where does South bound stop?

Lands End!!  Yp
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