Welcome to your third newsletter providing you with information regarding the Hard Ings Road Improvement scheme in Keighley. Every fortnight these newsletters will provide you with an update on how the works are progressing and also anything we think you might find interesting to do with the scheme.Work this past 2 weeks
During these past 2 weeks we have created a strong stone platform within the allotment area in preparation for a piling rig to come to site next week. We have also been taking down the stone walls.
We have been preparing the Fibreline area, stripping topsoil and commencing the breaking up of stone walls, also preparing for the piling rig next week.
At the Bradford Road Roundabout end we have continued with surface water drainage pipe installation.
This has been slower than anticipated due to finding a thick layer of grout (concrete) beneath the existing
road that we were not expecting.
Those of you passing through the area will have seen the temporary traffic management now in place to provide us with safe working zones to carry out the widening works. Lawkholme Lane is now closed. A temporary pedestrian crossing point has been installed near the Texaco garages. As expected, at rush hour congestion has increased at the 2 roundabouts but outside these times, traffic is flowing well.
Next week we will be continuing with the drainage work near Bradford Road Roundabout. We will be commencing the sheet piled retaining walls in the allotment and Fibreline areas. We will be commencing works within Beechcliffe Road Roundabout, removing the tree stumps in advance of installing new drainage within the roundabout.
On Wednesday 12th a large piling rig and large excavator and crane will be delivered to site. Please bear with us if you are held up on Hard Ings Road for a few minutes during the day as the large delivery of equipment is manoeuvred off Hard Ings Road, onto the allotment and Fibreline areas. The piling rig will be present on site for the next 3 weeks installing sheet piles which will act as a retaining wall for the widened carriageway in these areas where the ground level drops away. 2 methods of installation of the sheet piles will be used. A percussive (banging, potentially noisy) method within the allotment area which carries out the work as fast as possible (approximately 3-4 days) . A quieter (but very much slower) method adjacent to the Fibreline building to protect the factory against vibration as we are piling very close to the building ( approximately 10 days). Please bear with us during the 3 - 4 day noisier operation. It is the only piling we will be carrying out as part of the road improvement works. Vibration monitoring will be carried out during piling operations to ensure we keep within acceptable limits.
As part of the works, Beechcliffe Road roundabout will gain an additional traffic lane around it. The central roundabout area will shrink in size to accommodate this.
In order to safely carry out these works further temporary traffic management will be installed to close off a lane part way around the roundabout. The traffic management for the scheme has been phased to prevent large impacts to congestion that may have occurred if it had all been installed at once.
Again, in our experience when a temporary traffic management system is installed a large amount of traffic congestion is experienced during the first few days. After this congestion tends to calm down again. Please bear with us during this period.
This will not affect how you use the roundabout.
The following diversions have been put in place by the bus companies previously using the Lawkholme Lane junction.
Route P23 for Steeton Village Primary School will have an amended route. There will be no pick up on Lawkholme Lane. AM: the bus will start at the bus stop on Skipton Road at East Avenue (08:22) then along Skipton Road to Devonshire Street and the usual route thereafter. Therefore the bus will not operate along Lawkholme Lane. PM: as per the usual route from the school as far as the roundabout at Skipton Road/Hard Ings then continue along Skipton Road (16:10 at East Avenue) toward Devonshire Street and the usual route thereafter. Those passengers who usually board or alight at the stops at the top of Lawkholme Lane near Hard Ings are advised to use the bus stop on Skipton Road at East Avenue. This amendment will continue for the duration of the works at Hard Ings or until such time the turn restriction is lifted. Details of all school bus diversions are also available at https://www.wymetro.com/schools/school-bus-service-changes-and-disruptions/
The K17 service will have an amended route. It will not use Lawkholme Lane, beyond Bradford Street. It will also not use Royd Way and Royd Ings Avenue for the period of the Lawkholme Lane Closure. A new stop will be in place near ASDA for the diverted route. K17 Divert via Bradford Street, Brown Street, Bingley Street (Outbound temporary bus stop near ASDA), Bradford Road A6035 and Alston Road. Details of all diversions are also available at https://www.wymetro.com/plan-a-journey/travel-news/bus-alerts/
There are several ways you can contact the site team for inquiries, concerns or comments. The following staff members are based on site full time Bradford Council Project Manager - David Aspinall Email hardingsroad@bradford.gov.uk Howard Civil Engineering Project Manager - Tony Kilbane 07394 567341 Visiting the site is Howard Civil Engineering Liaison Officer/Newsletter editor - Lucie Jones 0113 249 8569
Or contact me, Lucie Jones on Hard.Ings@howardcivileng.co.uk
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