I try to avoid being negative about this fair city – but …
We are having a new big train set in case you haven’t noticed. And when it is done I’m sure it will be great. But my office (at NG2 Business Park) remains a place that bears the brunt of the significant work being done to deliver this project. Works started in May 2013 – I didn’t keep all of the newsletters (number 16 arrived yesterday). But here is the timeline issued in the November 2013 issue :
So ‘finishing’ in April / May 2014.
In May 2014 though there was another newsletter setting out some new arrangements for me to get to the office and this, “We apologise in advance for any inconvenience these works may cause you, and would like to assure you we will do all that we can to keep disruption to a minimum”.
On 9 June “The works at the ng2 junction and on Enterprise Way are expected to be substantially complete during this summer. We apologise in advance for any inconvenience that these works may cause you, and would like to assure you that we will do all that we can to keep disruption to a minimum”.
On the 11th August another update including, “As you will be aware, works to install tram tracks and the ng2 tram stop have been taking place at the ng2 Business Park on Enterprise Way, as part of the expansion of Nottingham’s tram network to Beeston and Chilwell (No shit Sherlock)…. The permanent traffic lights at the entrance to ng2 (the Queens Drive / Enterprise Way junction) are now expected to be in use in September, once they have been connected to power and tested, when the current turning restrictions will be lifted. We apologise in advance for any inconvenience these works may cause you, and would like to assure you we will do all that we can to keep disruption to a minimum.”
Yesterday there was great news, “The main works at the junction are now expected to be complete in October, at which point the traffic restrictions on the Queens Drive / Enterprise Way junction will be lifted. We apologise in advance for any inconvenience these works may cause you, and would like to assure you we will do all that we can to keep disruption to a minimum.”
So, other than the repeated apology works are expected to be complete in October. Note that there is no year …