The Lady Drove switchback.

[Apple]

There was a pair of works vehicles in Lady Drove today, taking core samples at some of the more spectacular of the many dips, bumps and deformations.

Supposedly this is prior to the road being repaired, but when that might be, well, who knows?

I am not convinced that the 'uneven road' warning signs that were erected recently will warn anyone who is unfamiliar with the road of just how awful and dangerous the road surface  is, let us hope no-one pays the ultimate price for this on-going neglect of the highway by NCC.

[Tim]

When you say core sample, how deep were they going?

Tim

[Apple]

I did not have the inclination to stop and talk because the weather was really mad at the time, but the core drill they were positioning on the surface as I went by was, I would say, about 4 feet long.

That being so, it seems a pretty pointless exercise as it is not going deep enough to reach any of the subsoil.

[Apple]

Incidentally, I spoke a while ago to a senior person at AW about the sewerage system and commented that I assumed that placing the pipe from the village to DM in the field instead of under the road would be done because it was cheaper. He told me that having seen the state of Lady Drove they felt they had to place it in the field because the road is so weak, and so subject to subsidence, that any pipe placed under it would be forever in need of repair when it breaks.

[Apple]

Just noticed today, 15 04 12, that there have been four more core samples taken along Lady Drove.. we shall see if anything happens now, (though I doubt it will).

[Tim]

There was a van out a couple of weeks ago with a bloke pushing a scanner around on the road.  I assume it was a ground radar or something similar because he was circling the dips in the road.

Presumably with that and the core samples they are trying to determine if anything is under there.

Tim