The slowness of construction work in the upgrading of Airport Way / A 505 is truly breathtaking. Let’s remember that this project was started in June 2006 and signage was put up at the bottom of the approach road that the work would finish by December 2007.
So what has been achieved after 32 months of construction work that is helping to speed up the traffic? Nothing, in fact it is worse now than at anytime. We now have to suffer the complete closure of the A505 in both directions, which causes traffic mayhem morning and night. Not a single inch of road has yet opened as two lanes due to traffic cones. In fact there is still a section of road under the bridge that still hasn’t had a single layer of tarmac laid on it.
Everyday I play spot the worker. On one occasion at 11 in the morning I counted a grand total of 8 people covering the entire 1 mile project with not a single person working on the closed off section. According to the latest council bar chart the roadworks on the A505 will be finished at the end of February. Yeh right, not a chance will that happen so it will be another missed deadline for the council.
The sorry truth is the workforce was never large enough to complete this work in 18 months. Doubling the workforce would not have added cost to the job as the job could have been done twice as quick but ending this nightmare quickly was never on the agenda of Luton Borough Council.
In fact it is clear that they really don’t care. Who in their right mind would start 3 months of new roadworks on the diversion route? Yes you have guessed it Luton Borough Council. In fact they are so proud of what they have done they have created its own website which tells us of even more delays that can be expected.
http://www.luton.gov.uk/media%20libr...%20leaflet.pdf