A49 Link Road Wigan

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The Goose Green to Westwood Park Link Road, is due to start construction soon and I know that Tomplum is really looking forward to work on the new road starting and mac said in another topic that they have been pegging out for the road bridge over the stream, so this is a plan of the new road, which has been made by a company called Tekla

Sniffy Brook Bridge


Entire Road


https://www.tekla.com/uk/bim-awards/a49-link-road

i for one would like this job to go ahead, and hopefully i can get a local job for the 1st time in years..........almost 3 hours a day travelling to and from work takes its toll

@QTPIE wrote:i for one would like this job to go ahead, and hopefully i can get a local job for the 1st time in years..........almost 3 hours a day travelling to and from work takes its toll

It is going ahead and obviously they were waiting to see if the Orrell motorway link is going to be built and funding for that was awarded last week, so the two roads will (hopefully) be built simultaneously.

@Admin wrote:Is the A49 on the old grey whistle test?

I was just trying to cheer up Mac and Tom

@Sir Bob wrote:The Goose Green to Westwood Park Link Road, is due to start construction soon and I know that Tomplum is really looking forward to work on the new road starting and mac said in another topic that they have been pegging out for the road bridge over the stream, so this is a plan of the new road, which has been made by a company called Tekla

Sniffy Brook Bridge


Entire Road


https://www.tekla.com/uk/bim-awards/a49-link-road

How soon is soon ?

It can't be very soon as there is no signs of preparation, IE site cabins,fences, compound, earth moving vehicles etc, so is it,
pretty soon
quite soon
faily soon
too soon
not soon
anytime soon
or coming soon, So's Christmas

Well I have just been googling


There's no new news about it


But they say that "No News is Good News"

It's been coming soon for over 40 years.

On a slightly related topic, I have been told that the shop tennants on the precinct at Worsley Mesnes, have been told that their leases will not be being renewed, because the shops are being demolished and apartments are going to be built in their place,

lol @ apartments.




https://www.wigan.gov.uk/Docs/PDF/Council/Consultations/Worsley-Mesnes-estate-masterplan.pdf

new shops within a
‘community hub’

Community space within a
‘community hub’

in the middle of the
proposed ‘community hub’

play spaces in the
'community hub'


Worsley Mesnes is going to be a 'commune'? Anyway, happy new word! (it's two words, actually!!)

@Mac wrote:lol @ apartments.

Posh Flats

It's back on, the entire road from Orrell to M61 at Bolton

https://www.wishfm.net/news/local/east-west-road-network-for-bolton-and-wigan-takes-major-step-forward/

It'll be on until it gets shelved again

from here....https://www.greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk/download/meetings/id/3076/13_local_growth_fund_update

Won't be posh flats either, just flats. In front is the community centre which is now a carers business place, and the beautiful flats to the side of it. To the rear will be the shops and all the problems associated with them (Kids causing trouble, etc.) behind that two Schools with the archaic parking and shouting parents. May start off posh, but won't stay that way.

Tonks, it just means they will put the shops in a semi circle on the floor plan where the wheel once was.

As for that road, Sir Bob, they could have built it for a million had they pulled their collective finger out. How much have the council wasted by cutting all those trees down many years ago and having to pay contractors to weed spray it all up to three times a year? Hope it fails again

Its the old pioneers defence plan, put your wagons in a circle , it makes it harder for the injuns to attack,

sooooo....when the A49 link road gets built, and the new Worsley Mesnes and the other road Bobbles has been twittering on about....

I think he should treat us all to cakes and ice cream from the new old KFC....

Well according to this it starts building in June by a firm from Welshland

https://www.constructionenquirer.com/2018/05/14/jones-bros-wins-retendered-14-5m-wigan-link-road

Now do they mean June this year, next month or do they mean June next year or the year after, I mean when you have been waiting for a road to be built since the M6 built, which is well over half a century ago, what is a couple of decades delay to worry about

By the time it will be built you will be retired' so it won't benefit you

Sorry Sir Bob I should have told you this before

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA