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Idleness
Sent to National Highways less than a minute later. FixMyStreet ref: 6726613.
For weeks if not months the nearside southbound lane between Meadowhall and Rotherham has been coned off. This is despite all works to create new smart motorway refuges being completed months ago. This causes congestion and much more chances of accidents happening and is just symptomatic of the idleness and lack of thought in your agency. It’s an absolute disgrace.
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Dear Geoff Thank you for your email of 13 November 2024 via the Fix My Street website, regarding the progress of our works on the M1 between Junctions 34 for Meadowhall and 33 for Rotherham. I’m sorry that you haven’t seen our work progressing as you would have expected. We know how frustrating this is for our customers particularly those how use the same sections of our network regularly. This work is part of our National Emergency Area Retrofit programme that’s taking place on the M1 and other sections of our all lanes running motorways. The new emergency areas you have described are part of the 13 additional emergency areas we’ve built between junctions 32 to 35A. Ten are fully completed and in use, the final three between Meadowhall and Rotherham are under final technology testing.
To test these systems, we must remove our temporary metal barriers, large machines and works vehicles, which gives the impression of a coned off, completed emergency area with no visible work taking place. We know that this is frustrating for our customers and we would like to reassure you that we will remove the roadworks as soon as our testing is done.
Very soon, between junctions 33 and 34 we have planned to remove the remaining traffic management and making all of the new emergency areas available to our customers.
Please note some of our work is weather dependant and this can delay progress.
Travel planning information
I thought it might be useful to send you a link to our interactive map that shows live traffic information. The map is intended to help our customers plan their journeys. A version for mobile devices is also available via free download.
Closure information
We also publish when parts of our network is being closed over the next seven days, which can be filtered by road, direction and date.
Please can I take this opportunity to thank you again for contacting us. As you have been dissatisfied on this occasion, we’ve handled your complaint in accordance with the first stage of National Highways’ complaints process.
If we can be of further help, or if you’d like to discuss our works further, please contact us either on 0300 123 5000 or by e-mail at EAretrofit@nationalhighways.co.uk. Alternatively, please visit our website or follow @HighwaysYorks on X (formerly twitter) for all our latest updates. You can also tell us about something wrong on any of our roads by using the Report a Problem page on our website.
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Kind regards
Steve
Steve Askham Community Relations and Stakeholder Manager SMP Alliance National Emergency Area Retrofit Programme (NEAR)
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