Lights are mended at cost of £12,000
Tuesday 15th December 2009, 11:00AM GMT.
Traffic lights at Shrewsbury’s busiest roundabout have been restored to working order after £12,000 of repairs.
The lights at the Dobbies island were put out of action after a car careered into the control box on December 3.
The car caused damage to the box and the cables which run underground meaning 40 lights and two pedestrian crossings were not working.
The damage has been estimated at £12,000 with the Highways Agency seeking to recoup the cost through insurance.
Ray Prichard, spokesman for the Highways Agency, said: “In the early hours of December 3 a car failed to negotiate the island and careered 20 metres across the island taking out the signal controller.
“It is a bespoke controller operating 40 of the lighting poles, two pedestrian crossings and 11 phases of lights.
“It also ripped out the cables underground.
“Each of the cables has 16 cores which means each cable has 16 cables running through it.
“Those had to be checked to see how much damage there was, there was a lot that had to be replaced and a new controller had to be built and tested off site and then installed.
“At 3.30pm yesterday it was installed and should be back up and running now.”
He added: “Whenever a vehicle causes damage to Highways Agency property every effort is made to recoup that loss through conventional insurance procedures.”
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it works perfectly well without the lights. It’s a roundabout not a cross roads!!!!!
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A”flyover”,grade seperated junction could have been built at the time the lights were installed,this would have cost roughly 1.5 riverside Darwinesque statues.This would have irradicated congestion,potential accidents,the need for any lights and im pretty sure Greyhound Plant would have been very very glad of the contract.
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Personally I have found the lights to be a success story. The island had been the pinch-point in my route to work for 15 years. Now there is no queuing for more than a couple of minutes in a morning from the direction I travel. Gone are the days of queues back through Bayston Hill.
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please dont repair the lights, the island works so much better without them!
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