"It's chaos, isn't it?" one of my neighbours said, as he looked out over the traffic cones and the surface of the road, which has been stripped of the top layer of asphelt.
Actually, no - it isn't. The LaFarge workmen are incredibly well organised, and it's all going very smoothly indeed.
From 2pm to 6pm the road is open while they work, and traffic is controlled by traffic lights. Then from 6pm to 10pm they close the bridge - and last night the top section of the road they're working on, Belmont Road, and divert the traffic. They've stopped each night on the dot of ten o'clock, and to be honest the noise hasn't bothered me.
There was a St David's Day concert at the Globe, and I was told that the people from the Globe had a word with the roadworks men beforehand. For the first half an hour of the concert, while the harpist was playing, they were very quiet outside. "After that," said the lady who had been there, "it didn't matter - the choir was on, and they were loud!"
In a few more days, the work will be finished, and we'll have a nice shiny new road surface in time for Easter!
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I think bets ought to be taken for the first time the new road needs to be dug up - how soon and where!
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