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A49 Link Road Wigan
Tue Sep 27 2016, 11:26
First topic message reminder :
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
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
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Re: A49 Link Road Wigan
Tue Aug 08 2017, 16:12
Photographs of what? Not kids I hope!...
Watch to the end
Watch to the end
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Re: A49 Link Road Wigan
Tue Aug 08 2017, 19:42
He was in a white van and was parked on pavement and road opposite the bottom car park at the shops and was wearing a hi-vis green vest and he was taking photos of the main road, in both directions with a phone, he looked to be part of the same firm who have been digging on the embankment.
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Re: A49 Link Road Wigan
Tue Aug 08 2017, 20:45
they've fenced off the land at the side of the tippings, So its looking like things are moving, I wondered in the council offices and they are designing the road signs
" The Sir Bob highway" opening sooooon
" The Sir Bob highway" opening sooooon
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Re: A49 Link Road Wigan
Tue Aug 08 2017, 20:53
@tomplum wrote: ... I wondered in the council offices ...
What was you wondering about?
Tomplum in Wonderland!
♫ " 'cause for twenty-five years I've been living next door to Tomplum" ♫
♫ Who the Tuck is Tomplum?
♫
Christmas carols, eh.!
PS: it's better than being deaf!
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Re: A49 Link Road Wigan
Tue Aug 08 2017, 21:58
@tomplum wrote:they've fenced off the land at the side of the tippings, So its looking like things are moving, I wondered in the council offices and they are designing the road signs
" The Sir Bob highway" opening sooooon
If you look down the side of the fencing, you can see that they have dug an access road through to the compound at the side of Worsley Mesnes Drive, next to the council canoo place and the construction firm doing it is a firm called Bethell Construction
http://www.bethell.co.uk/
At the canal bridge (New Lion Bridge) at the entrance to Westwood Park, which is to be widened and on the side which is to be widened, they have been drilling there for over a week now and I am wondering if they are not just drilling for core samples, but are they drilling and piling and are actually putting in the foundations for the bridge extension.
But council website says that construction will be starting in 2018
https://www.wigan.gov.uk/Resident/Parking-Roads-Travel/Westwood-Park/Westwood-Park.aspx
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Re: A49 Link Road Wigan
Tue Aug 08 2017, 22:04
Side of the Tippings is an entrance, from there you can stroll across the fields to the path. If there wasn't, there would have been when I strolled over.
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Re: A49 Link Road Wigan
Tue Aug 08 2017, 23:37
CBR testing. Etc.
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Re: A49 Link Road Wigan
Wed Aug 09 2017, 08:45
Best thing wot could happen is that when they get parallel with the main part of the Worsley Mesnes Council Estate (here) their diggering uncovers a massive WW2 bomb 
Because during war those nasty krauts used to try and bomb the railway line, because it was actually the main line between Scouseland and Mankland in them days, the line into and through Wallgate Station, was actually a branch line, but they missed the railway line and hit St Pauls cemetery instead ....
Or did they?
So bomb is found and estate is evacuated, but before the UXB squad get here, the bloody thing goes off and blows all of estate up
It does Wigan Council a favour, because they can start with a clean slate and regenerate all of estate without having to worry about getting rid of tenants and demolishing properties
Because during war those nasty krauts used to try and bomb the railway line, because it was actually the main line between Scouseland and Mankland in them days, the line into and through Wallgate Station, was actually a branch line, but they missed the railway line and hit St Pauls cemetery instead ....
Or did they?
So bomb is found and estate is evacuated, but before the UXB squad get here, the bloody thing goes off and blows all of estate up
It does Wigan Council a favour, because they can start with a clean slate and regenerate all of estate without having to worry about getting rid of tenants and demolishing properties
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Re: A49 Link Road Wigan
Wed Aug 09 2017, 09:15
The new road to Wigan,
Is a book i'm going to write
much better than that of Orwells
cos he's was a load o shite,
It'll tell of the Wigan spirit
the rugby team we've got
and the folks who worked and lived here,
when the cooling towers were red hot
The road will bring us business
for the workers and the skivers
but the people who are most happy
are the Wigan taxi drivers,
Is a book i'm going to write
much better than that of Orwells
cos he's was a load o shite,
It'll tell of the Wigan spirit
the rugby team we've got
and the folks who worked and lived here,
when the cooling towers were red hot
The road will bring us business
for the workers and the skivers
but the people who are most happy
are the Wigan taxi drivers,
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Re: A49 Link Road Wigan
Wed Aug 09 2017, 11:44
I walk my dog along that path
every single day,
and soon I won,t want to
When its Sir bob's way.
there'll be fumes and rushing traffic
thats enough to send you deaf
So i'll need another pathway
To exercise lill' Jeff,
every single day,
and soon I won,t want to
When its Sir bob's way.
there'll be fumes and rushing traffic
thats enough to send you deaf
So i'll need another pathway
To exercise lill' Jeff,
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Re: A49 Link Road Wigan
Wed Aug 09 2017, 13:13
@tomplum wrote:I walk my dog along that path
every single day,
and soon I won,t want to
When its Sir bob's way.
there'll be fumes and rushing traffic
thats enough to send you deaf
So i'll need another pathway
To exercise lill' Jeff,
What sort of dog have you got.
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Re: A49 Link Road Wigan
Wed Aug 09 2017, 13:25
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Re: A49 Link Road Wigan
Wed Aug 09 2017, 13:58
Vicious little bastards, them!
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Re: A49 Link Road Wigan
Wed Aug 09 2017, 14:02
@Sir Bob wrote: .....
Because during war those nasty krauts used to try and bomb the railway line, because it was actually the main line between Scouseland and Mankland in them days, ........
Actually, no, it wasn't! Does' know nowt?
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Re: A49 Link Road Wigan
Tue Oct 17 2017, 13:35
Doo yoo believe this
www.wigantoday.net/early-2018-start-for-long-awaited-a49-link-road
www.wigantoday.net/early-2018-start-for-long-awaited-a49-link-road
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Re: A49 Link Road Wigan
Wed Oct 18 2017, 09:41
Will it or won't that is the question. Badgers wood residents have been quiet lately.
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Re: A49 Link Road Wigan
Fri Feb 23 2018, 16:53
AGMA finally approoved it today and it is on this YooTube between 16.20 and 18.25
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Re: A49 Link Road Wigan
Fri Feb 23 2018, 21:56
Sir tommy 2 stoke Bob,, Its never going to happen mate, let go. the 'Sir bob' highway is pie in the sky, Why would anyone build a carraigeway taking five hours to get to a town centre two minutes away ? 
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Re: A49 Link Road Wigan
Fri Feb 23 2018, 22:13
Counts without the O's. Some seriously thick envelopes were involved
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Re: A49 Link Road Wigan
Fri Feb 23 2018, 22:13
tomplum
Are yoo watching the 'Old Grey Whistle Test' on BBC4 it is a one off live broadcast, presented by Bob Harris, marking 30 years since the last show and by eck I didn't think it was that long since it ended
Are yoo watching the 'Old Grey Whistle Test' on BBC4 it is a one off live broadcast, presented by Bob Harris, marking 30 years since the last show and by eck I didn't think it was that long since it ended
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Re: A49 Link Road Wigan
Fri Feb 23 2018, 22:14
@Mac wrote:Counts without the O's. Some seriously thick envelopes were involved
Your favourite person was 'chair' of that meeting
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Re: A49 Link Road Wigan
Sat Feb 24 2018, 09:12
@Sir Bob wrote:tomplum
Are yoo watching the 'Old Grey Whistle Test' on BBC4 it is a one off live broadcast, presented by Bob Harris, marking 30 years since the last show and by eck I didn't think it was that long since it ended
ahh sheeeesh, I missed that, The good thing about the ole grey wistle test is, Its better now than it was then.
In the day bob Harris had a slow drone pon faced humour that I did't get then, plus the groups/bands he presented were not so well known,
Today I do now understand Bobs delivery and like it, also many of the bands he presented turned out to be top bands,
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Re: A49 Link Road Wigan
Sat Feb 24 2018, 09:34
@tomplum wrote:@Sir Bob wrote:tomplum
Are yoo watching the 'Old Grey Whistle Test' on BBC4 it is a one off live broadcast, presented by Bob Harris, marking 30 years since the last show and by eck I didn't think it was that long since it ended
ahh sheeeesh, I missed that, The good thing about the ole grey wistle test is, Its better now than it was then.
In the day bob Harris had a slow drone pon faced humour that I did't get then, plus the groups/bands he presented were not so well known,
Today I do now understand Bobs delivery and like it, also many of the bands he presented turned out to be top bands,
Have yoo got tomato sauce Tom, if so you can watch it on ketchup
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b09scfnb/the-old-grey-whistle-test-for-one-night-only
It was alright I enjoyed it, there was some excellent stuff on there, mainly old, but some noo too, like these
Wildwood Kin
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Re: A49 Link Road Wigan
Sat Feb 24 2018, 09:38
Is the A49 on the old grey whistle test?
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