Someone told me that Dean Street and Fareham Street will be closed for 7
years... this seems to agree...
http://www.crossrail.co.uk/company/c...---tfl-release

What can they be doing that would require a road to be closed for 7
years? Have they not heard of Bailey bridges?

On Jun 17, 3:36*am, Basil Jet wrote:
Someone told me that Dean Street and Fareham Street will be closed for 7
years... this seems to agree...
http://www.crossrail.co.uk/company/c...---tfl-release

What can they be doing that would require a road to be closed for 7
years? Have they not heard of Bailey bridges?

Well, if you want to dig a hole you normally also need to have some
space and access in order to do the digging - the streets there aren't
wide boulevards, so the requisitioned road space is surely going to
constitute some of the actual works sites. Bailey bridges worked on
Borough High St for the JLE works, and on Euston Rd for the KXSP Tube
station works, but in both cases there was a whole lot more space -
these are the constricted back-streets of Soho after all.

Only Fareham Street is closed outright - other streets such as the
north end of Dean Street remain open for pedestrian access. See this
information page on the TfL Freight sub-site, and in particular the
linked PDF which provides a map of the road closures (which having
been up that way on foot recently does seem to be an accurate
depiction of the reality on the ground - if there's going to be any
actual ground left after all this!):
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/microsites/freight/news-1133.aspx

On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:08:53 -0700 (PDT), Mizter T
wrote:

Well, if you want to dig a hole you normally also need to have some
space and access in order to do the digging - the streets there aren't
wide boulevards, so the requisitioned road space is surely going to
constitute some of the actual works sites. Bailey bridges worked on
Borough High St for the JLE works, and on Euston Rd for the KXSP Tube
station works, but in both cases there was a whole lot more space -
these are the constricted back-streets of Soho after all.


Presumably there will also be a need for space for the contractor's
site offices, washrooms and equipment store?

When Oxford Circus station was rebuilt for the Victoria Line in the
1960s, a huge and complex structure was built to raise both Oxford
Street and Regent Street over the junction allowing all the work to
take place underneath. This was said to be the ultimate expression of
temporary bridging. I don't know whether any Bailey bridging was
involved.