welcome to our March issue
Why do we change our clocks?
It’s all to do with saving the hours of daylight and was started by a man
called William Willett, a London builder, who lived in Petts Wood in Kent.
Basically, he reckoned that he could improve the population’s health and
happiness by putting forward the clocks by twenty minutes on each of four
Sundays in April and
by reversing this idea
by the same amount
on four Sundays in
September. The
clocks will go forward
at 1am on Sunday
28th March this year -
don’t forget!
Update on Torr Road Closure
competition
At a recent Bridge of Weir Tenants and Resident Association meeting, John
Wallace (Renfrewshire Council Roads Engineer) gave a very informative
overview on the extent of the works which have been required to
stabilise Torr Rd. The support structure to the Horsewood retaining wall
is quite apparent, but the bulk of the work is now required to rebuild the
foundations of Torr Rd itself.
Despite the poor weather at the end of last year, the contract to stabilise
the substantial areas of weathered rock face on the embankment above
Torr Road was successfully completed on 26th January, 2010. This will
allow excavation of Torr Road without any concerns over the stability of
the embankment supporting Horsewood Road.
To allow the wall supporting Torr Road to be demolished safely, public
utility apparatus has to be diverted and during the contract for the rock
slope stabilisation the utility companies have been preparing detailed
designs for their elements of the works.
As the site is very compact and congested, utilities have to be moved in a
phased manner. Scottish Water’s contractor commenced sewer diversion
works on Monday 8th February and they anticipated completion of these
works towards the end of the February. Other phases of the works will
follow with British Telecom commencing diversion of their apparatus. BT
have major facilities in the road and their works will unfortunately take up
to 8 weeks. Finally Scottish Power will begin temporary service diversions
with a planned completion date of end of May for all the utility works.
The design of a new reinforced concrete cantilever retaining wall to support
Torr Road along the undermined section has been taking shape in parallel with
the above works. Tenders will be invited for the wall reconstruction next
month. This work is programmed to last 8 weeks and will include construction
of the new retaining wall, improvements to the surface water drainage on
Torr Road, facing of the new concrete buttresses supporting Horsewood
Road, diversion of the visible power cables running down the Horsewood
Road embankment and
replacement of the
pedestrian fence on
the footpath above Torr
Road.
Torr Road is anticipated
to re-open to vehicular
traffi c towards the end
of July 2010.
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