Temporary overpass bridge to avoid closing road during work

[MadCaptainJack]

Switzerland is using a two-lane mobile overpass bridge to resurface roads without stopping traffic.

[Haltamer]

Last time they used these in the UK they ended up in place for... forever

Lodge avenue flyover, Gallows corner flyover, There's plenty other "temporary" bridges of the same construction dotted around London

The (Dutch) A12 Tunnel that went in over a weekend is still my favourite, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btOE0rcKDC0 - Nothing there would be impossible to accomplish in the UK (It even rains at one point whilst work continues!)

But alas, the M25's new laybys will be finished in a few years or so...

[andy43]

Meanwhile we have miles of tailbacks and temporary traffic lights because someone dug a hole in a pavement and we ‘need’ a full width temporary pavement setting up in the road.
Plus the coned off area provides somewhere for the road workers to put the soil and park their vans so they have somewhere close by to sit while texting.

[grudas]

it would take around 26 weeks to put this up in the uk lol.

[MikeM6]

grudas said:

it would take around 26 weeks to put this up in the uk lol.

It would take 26 weeks to plan and get the various permissions and assessment completed, then a further 26 weeks to secure the budgets, then 26 weeks to argue about who is going to do the work, then 26 weeks to revise the plans and then finally 26 weeks to scrap the plans as it's too expensive and we decided that we might as well inconvenience everyone by closing the road instead, which will then take another 26 months.

But the cones and temporary speed limits would be in place from the very start.

[Electronicpants]

MikeM6 said:

grudas said:

it would take around 26 weeks to put this up in the uk lol.

It would take 26 weeks to plan and get the various permissions and assessment completed, then a further 26 weeks to secure the budgets, then 26 weeks to argue about who is going to do the work, then 26 weeks to revise the plans and then finally 26 weeks to scrap the plans as it's too expensive and we decided that we might as well inconvenience everyone by closing the road instead, which will then take another 26 months.

But the cones and temporary speed limits would be in place from the very start.

This is quite scarily accurate.