Ruddington’s drivers and bus users are being warned to brace themselves for more delays on Wilford Road as new roadworks requiring temporary traffic lights begin there TODAY (Thursday 23rd November).
The new mobile telecommunications pole on Wilford Road has been running on electricity from a large roadside generator since it was erected last month after connecting it to an existing mains power source was deemed to be unsafe. Peter Groves, who owns the nearest property on Wilford Road, told us: “O2 contacted The Lodge Boutique BnB to ask if they could tap into my electrical supply to feed their new mast installation just up the road. I said ‘Of course you can’ and then they sent a surveyor to assess the installation requirements – only to be told my electrical input was not enough to carry the extra 50amp load they need.”
The fifteen metre high mast supports three antennae and a satellite dish with a cabinet for ground based equipment beside it. A new pole was needed in the vicinity to replace existing mobile ‘phone coverage from antennae sited on the Malmic Lace factory when this building is demolished to make way for 28 new houses on Brookside Road. However many residents have already commented on social media that its brilliant white paint job and prominent position at a rural village gateway on Green Belt land is inappropriate.
The oversight about a suitable electrical supply means that to connect permanent power here a large trench now needs to be dug across Wilford Road to put in new, thicker cabling. Temporary lights will be controlling traffic again for almost two weeks* – from today until Tuesday 5th December. This is likely to cause more peak time delays for drivers and for NCT’s Navy 3 buses.
* This work is now set to take four days longer than originally scheduled. The revised dates are shown.
