The £450,000 scheme to refurbish High Street and Ock Street has begun.
So we will probably have a couple of months of this.
I did think the flower beds at the end of Bath Street were also getting refurbished since the Town Council notice board has been chopped down. But have learned that that area is to be used for portacabins, and cutting down the noticeboard was just one of those mistakes that happen. Something similar happened in Grove where the village Christmas Tree got axed despite being inside a fence. Grove are going to get a better tree out of it. Maybe we will get a better notice board and garden area afterwards.
It's a basic Traffic-Engineering ploy to reduce accident rate – slow all traffic to a crawl. Another tick in the 'performance' box.
Lets just hope that the 'improvements' don't include distorted roundabout lanes which seem to be appearing everywhere. Enter iaw the Highway Code then discover half way round that you are now in the wrong lane ! OK for locals after a while but DANGEROUS when mixed with visitors to the area.
These roadworks will leave the town centre gridlocked, and it will take forever to get through the town. Oh…..wait a minute….that's the case anyway, without roadworks. Well done Abingdon Transport Scheme inventors, you are officially rubbish.
On Friday and Saturday there is a sale of pictures painted by Abingdon Artists at Saint Nicolas church in the Square, Can you please persuade people to negociate the barriers and pop in ?