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At long last, one of the many problems listed for the Kingsditch Lane, Wymans Lane Hyde Lane is being addressed but unfortunately
at the expense of yet another episode of the ubiquitous temporary traffic lights on Hyde Lane.
Today (Monday August 2nd.) work has begun on ‘sorting out’ the low-lying drain cover outside Inglenook.
You will recall that this drain is usually blocked with debris and, because it lies in a depression is a source of noise
and vibration and often threatens to dislodge cargo on the commercial vehicles that of necessity have to drive close to the
kerb because of the narrowness of Hyde Lane.
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Hyde Lane Crescent. (Further to ?Alien Growths?)
Well, at least they are consistent. The grass cutters again have circumnavigated the long grass that has grown up
around the deep troughs left by the lorry on May 7th. But at least the grass has been cut.
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More hold-ups at Hyde Lane Railway Bridge once again! And again! And again!
Last week the ?Railway? partially closed the road in order to install sensors on the railway bridge over Hyde Lane. These are to measure the impact of any vehicle striking the bridge. Won?t stop them; just indicate the severity of the impact to help troubleshoot the incident.
This seems a long-term, permanent and expensive measure. Have they no faith in CBCs low bridge signs, I wonder?
This week the road is being dug up again. Wymans Lane, this time. Is being crossed by electricity supply cable to feed the
control box for the railway bridge impact sensors.
Another road hold-up at the week-end near this corner involved more excavations for the installation of the
electrical feed to the East set of ?School Crossing Patrol? lights. I hope to see these in action soon.
Not too far away is notice of another potential road hold-up.
According to the notices to be seen at the level crossing on Swindon Lane the road will be closed on June 19th and 20th. No reason given.
I passed along Wymans Lane twice today (Saturday 19th) and there were no signs of a closure. But I wouldn?t bank on it being open and plan a
route that included the crossing!
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The aliens, or perhaps it is the ‘little folk’, have landed on the grass on the Hyde Lane Crescent. Some very weird stands
of tall grass have appeared towards the West end of the Crescent following the recent mowing.
Certainly the grass cutters were very wary of these depressions left by the wheels of a large lorry that tried to bury
itself in the grass. They have cut round the holes and have left these interesting stands of grass.
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19 May 2004 - What now? First they can’t get under the railway, now they can’t get over it!!
I am told that yesterday, Tuesday, a lorry failed to clear the level crossing on Swindon Lane and was caught by the barriers! Took ages to clear the line.
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17 Mary 2004 - I notice work proceeding well at tackling the potholes on Church Road. Pity about the Crescent on Hyde Lane.
A large vehicle turning across the grass has already torn up the new patching!
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10 May 2004 - Two official looking men were seen looking at the latest deep furrows ploughed into the grass on the Hyde Lane Crescent following the recent incident reported on May 5th. Does this mean action is imminent? One can only hope.
Seems like there is quite a bit of activity one way or the other in Swindon Village these days. Lets hope it means some attention to many of our
long outstanding problems.
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10 May 2004 - When is half a bridge better than no bridge? When it is being painted!
Once again Hyde Lane was in the grip of the dreaded temporary red light syndrome today … but this time for a good cause.
Workers on behalf of the ‘Railway’ have painted half of the bridge with black and yellow diagonal stripes, and presumably will
return to paint the other half tomorrow. This time the full height of the bridge parapet has been painted so it is either an
eyesore, or a job well done, depending on your point of view.
Certainly it should be hard to miss (the painting that is).
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7 May 2004
Once again …
On Friday morning about 8.45am, that is, about as busy a time as you can get, a lorry approached the Hyde Lane railway bridge from the Smiths side.
Deciding that he could not get under, he tried to make a u-turn across the end of the crescent from the main road side.
This was novel! However, his front wheels got bogged down in the soft grass helped by his rear wheels digging into the hump that forms the verge.
As his back end was protruding out over half the carriageway, and the traffic heading West was continuous, nothing could get towards Smiths until
somebody led the way through the crescent. Then of course it was continuous through the crescent and woe betide any resident wanting to exit towards
the village.
Help was offered by Richard and his tractor from Manor Farm and by Hyde Farm Dairy but it was found impossible to pull the lorry into the crescent.
Eventually with the aid of the Police to hold up the traffic the lorry was pulled backwards onto the main road and he managed to escape from there.
There was much criticism of the lack of signing, and while better signing would help, there will always be another who will try for the bridge.
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6 May 2004 - This week CBC has worked on filling the potholes at the entrance to the Crescent off Hyde Lane. The
road surface suffers greatly from the efforts of artics and other large vehicles trying to make a U-turn
after reversing back from the railway bridge because they were too high to pass underneath.
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6 May 2004 - The rainstorms of Tuesday in particular provided a good preliminary test of the new drainage in
Quatgoose Lane. Following the particularly heavy late afternoon deluge it was pleasing to see that
the roads were quite clear of storm water. Well done CBC.
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