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Updated: Deeping underpass to close
4:05pm Tuesday 9th February 2010
THE closure of the Deeping entrance to Southchurch Road from the Victoria Circus roundabout has been delayed by a week.
The Deeping was due to close permanently from Monday, February 15 but will now close on the evening of Sunday, February 21.
The closure is to enable road improvements which are part of a £25m investment programme.
More than £7 million is being invested to replace the roundabout with a traffic light junction and create a new green public space linking Southend Victoria station with the town centre.
Until the works have been completed access to Chichester Road and Southchurch Road (including the Victoria and Essex Street car parks) will be via the Queensway House roundabout.
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shaun1965, Southend says...
5:01pm Tue 9 Feb 10
Miss D Meaner, Vicarage Hill, Benfleet says...
5:04pm Tue 9 Feb 10
perini, Leigh on Sea says...
5:24pm Tue 9 Feb 10
Anna - let me get this right - you want an entrance to the town so you close the one road that leads straight to the town centre!! How will that work then???
SARFENDMAN, Rayleigh says...
5:41pm Tue 9 Feb 10
Nebs, Westcliff-on-Sea says...
6:57pm Tue 9 Feb 10
southendreb, southend says...
7:28pm Tue 9 Feb 10
perini, Leigh on Sea says...
7:47pm Tue 9 Feb 10
southendreb wrote:They'll spend thousands re-opening the deeping at a guess but with this lot - who knows??? A raised road over Vic Circus?
What happens when they find out this dosent work??.
bronte, Rayleigh says...
10:08pm Tue 9 Feb 10
Devilish82, Southend says...
10:59pm Tue 9 Feb 10
When the underpass was closed my travel time to work was doubled and now it is being closed full time. I honestly can't see how these people get to the positions they are in and more to the point, how on earth do they stay there?
By closing the underpass you are going to be forcing traffic either through residential areas so they can get into the town from the lower end of the high street or forcing them through Southchurch Road.
I wonder how many people might start taking a short cut through the bus only lane/lights opposite the old B&Q building....
insanelad, Shoeburyness says...
11:08pm Tue 9 Feb 10
The Deeping, Cuckoo Corner..........have you seen what she is doing at Progress Road ?
Somebody please tell this Council that 3 lanes merging into 2 does not work and never will.
Rush hour will be horrendous coming into Southend. I hope the Tories get a real kicking at the local elections this year.
And don't start me on the suject of what has been done to Gunners Park by this lot !!
siddymint, Belfairs says...
6:48am Wed 10 Feb 10
Or will the project be possiblly be stopped because the Waite failed to consult certain parties and then the blame can be placed on them as the british horse soceity is being blamed at progress road because it was forgotten to put in a horse crossing.
What happend to the chicken that lived on Victoria roundabout ?
radioman, westcliff-on-sea says...
9:22am Wed 10 Feb 10
Cockle, Southend says...
2:28pm Wed 10 Feb 10
Has anyone yet seen a proper set of plans for this scheme, or any of the others associated with this project, rather than just airy 'artists' impressions'?
It all seems to be being kept well under wraps with just little dribs and drabs of info being released as and when the powers that be decide, and when it's too late to stop them.
Nebs, Westcliff-on-Sea says...
3:22pm Wed 10 Feb 10
Cockle, Southend says...
5:07pm Wed 10 Feb 10
How many of you are willing to be taken for idiots any longer because that's obviously what our current crop of incompetents think we are.
vanilla ice, Rochford says...
5:45pm Wed 10 Feb 10
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Peter Pantsless, Southend-on-Sea says...
4:21pm Tue 9 Feb 10
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Anna, you gonna keep a low profile on this one?