Talk about taking the long way home.
Motorists in southwest England will need to pay special attention when driving through Dorset County next week, where officials are putting a 41-mile detour around a 65-foot stretch of construction work.
The diversion will take drivers along several roads and into another county before heading back into Dorset County. Local residents have blasted the council's decision.
"It's just crazy and there doesn't seem to be any logic to it," said Heather Chapman, who runs a camping business near the closure.
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The small section of road A352 in Godmanstone, Dorset, will be closed Monday through Friday while construction crews work on a new sewage system, The Telegraph reported. The Dorset County Council approved the massive diversion, calling it necessary as it "has to be suitable for the type of traffic that would normally use the closed section."
The detour is estimated to take an hour to complete. The closed portion of the road would take just over two seconds to travel at the 30 mph speed limit.
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The council acknowledged that most residents will ignore the lengthy detour and use smaller roads to get around the construction work. Anyone caught using the closed stretch of road will be fined $1,291.
ScarletMedusa on October 24th, 2019 at 07:45 UTC »
Pft that's nothing .... 154 mile detour due to a fallen tree in the Highlands of Scotland. Happens all the time up here, mainly because a lot of our smaller towns and villages are connected along one main road (the A9) with the smaller roads either unsuitable for larger vehicles or are single track roads so unsuited to higher volumes of traffic, so rather than a network of roads, we effectively have a loop so if it is blocked somewhere, there is no option but to go the other way round.
https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/highlands/1820700/fallen-tree-sets-154-mile-detour-for-drivers/
goffstock on October 24th, 2019 at 07:42 UTC »
It sounds a bit silly, but the smaller roads in that area are miniscule by American standards--think single lane roads with low visibility and pullouts every few hundred feet if you're lucky.
They have to find a route that works for lorries, not just cars. No doubt locals will mostly be using those smaller roads.
Also a detour to Yeovil means some of that delicious Yeo Valley yoghurt. That's almost worth the detour.
S0cXs on October 24th, 2019 at 04:29 UTC »
I guess it was someone last day at work today, and they wanted to have fun.