Wigan Trench warfare on road.
A councillor has slammed contractors for leaving a major road in a "disgraceful" state.
Leigh West councillor Myra Whiteside has criticised the contractors employed by a utilities company to lay power cables along Wigan Road in Leigh.
A "temporary" filling of a trench at the junction of Wigan Road and Nell Pan Lane has been left for months and Coun Whiteside says promises to provide a smooth surface have been broken.
She says residents' peace is being shattered by articulated lorries thundering over the shoddy surface.
She said: "It's been left in an absolute mess.
"They are treating the authority and local people with contempt."
The road was dug up in October 2006 to allow cables to be laid from a power sub-station in Hindley Green to the new Leigh Sports Village.
Months of serious traffic delays between Wigan and Leigh were endured before it was "completed" in late March this year.
But United Utilities contractors were called back to the site at the request of the local authority because the work was not completed to the satisfaction of council inspectors.
Council streetworks coordinator Tony Hemingway said: "Our inspectors were unhappy with aspects of the trench right along it's length, and asked the contractors to return to carry out remedial works.
"The trench was only supposed to be temporary and the remedial resurfacing work should have been done within 27 days, but it's taken much longer."
A spokesman for United Utilities said: "We are currently looking into the cause of the problem. We hope to have it rectified as soon as possible."
Source Wigan Today..
A "temporary" filling of a trench at the junction of Wigan Road and Nell Pan Lane has been left for months and Coun Whiteside says promises to provide a smooth surface have been broken.
She says residents' peace is being shattered by articulated lorries thundering over the shoddy surface.
She said: "It's been left in an absolute mess.
"They are treating the authority and local people with contempt."
The road was dug up in October 2006 to allow cables to be laid from a power sub-station in Hindley Green to the new Leigh Sports Village.
Months of serious traffic delays between Wigan and Leigh were endured before it was "completed" in late March this year.
But United Utilities contractors were called back to the site at the request of the local authority because the work was not completed to the satisfaction of council inspectors.
Council streetworks coordinator Tony Hemingway said: "Our inspectors were unhappy with aspects of the trench right along it's length, and asked the contractors to return to carry out remedial works.
"The trench was only supposed to be temporary and the remedial resurfacing work should have been done within 27 days, but it's taken much longer."
A spokesman for United Utilities said: "We are currently looking into the cause of the problem. We hope to have it rectified as soon as possible."
Source Wigan Today..
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