Saturday, November 02, 2024
The major roadworks at the Bow Roundabout are now into their second month (or their third month if you're the manager who cancels buses).
• Traffic queues are still bad, but not always that bad.
• Pretty much the whole area under the Stratford side of the flyover is now sealed off and in use as a worksite.
• New kerbstones have been added along the edge of the new contraflow exit lane.
• Work has also started on drilling out the expansion joint forming the eastern edge of Bow Bridge.
• The first roadworks have taken place under the Bow side of the flyover, but only to drill out a curve of concrete block paving that's due to become roadway, so fairly trivial.
A few weeks ago this sign was placed on Stratford High Street on the approach to the flyover. Its apostrophes are now concerning me. The apostrophe in B′wall is unnecessary because there's plenty of space to write Blackwall. But I was mainly bamboozled by Ch′ford. Why are they directing traffic towards Chingford, I thought, that's not even on the A12. Only five minutes later did I realise they meant Chelmsford. I wonder how many passing drivers work that out in the brief seconds before the divide. Over-abbreviated place names on lane markings are often highly ambiguous for those without good local knowledge.
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