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just wondered:-a, any idea when ( presunably eventually) this road which has been reduced to a single carriageway will revert to dual staus b, how anyone responsible can continue to be employed/ not be chased up by their superiors seeing as its been closed of for around 4 yearsc,why is the road not coned off properly?, it starts as a left hand feed from 3 lanes and instead of ensuring it remained 1 lane till the works were cleared, it reverts to 2 for a short stretch thus ensuring a nice battle of wills at the end, very pleasant! d, given that the route of this (A1, M1link) was being discussed/finalised whilst i was at school in the early 70's how is it that all the very well qualified people manage to design it so that access is posible at the A1 end from both directions but from the M1/M621 end only from sheffield direction unless you use an A road (the one in the title) or a trip up to the M62 roundabout!, didnt they learn anything from having to come off the M621 and turn back onto it via Frank Fletchers? i had thought that unemployment and thus no need to use said road would stop it anoying me but seeing as we all worked for a firm where, if you were at all behind in your work you were chased up i cannot grasp how something can be "left" for 4 years and it be ok, then again its not being overseen by a "real" firm is it,    

I think the place to look for answers is the Highways Agency perhaps?    

Wasn't there a landslip or some ground instability? Might be wrong

Could be wrong but I don't think this is Highway Agency territoryhttp://g.co/maps/sb7tsThe imagery is August 2008 but the coned off/single lane area has been extended to before the roundabout in the mean time.I also agree with the OP. Although it took a while to build the East Leeds Link Road at junction 45 was always going to take some of the traffic out of South East Leeds to the A1/M1 but it also amazes me how an exit from the new stretch of the M1 was not built to the old stretch of the M1 now M621 north/west bound and vice verce

Cardiarms wrote: Wasn't there a landslip or some ground instability? Might be wrong You are right, the whole of the side of the road slipped away at the side of the Royal Mail centre. Probably too costly to repair.

buffaloskinner wrote: Cardiarms wrote: Wasn't there a landslip or some ground instability? Might be wrong You are right, the whole of the side of the road slipped away at the side of the Royal Mail centre. Probably too costly to repair. Ah,Something I know something about!The subsidance was due to the fact that when building the new Arla factory that runs alongside the road they had to cut into the banking alongside the road.The reason it is taking so long to sort is due to the ongoing legal battle between Arla and the Highways Agency over who will pay for the repair works.

Went down that way today and there was a team surveying it so work on it may be comming.

The road noise in that whole area is ridiculous. All the outlying areas are drenched in traffic noise. I've looked at houses in Rothwell, Ardsley, Thorpe, Middleton etc and it's horrendous

book wrote: The road noise in that whole area is ridiculous. All the outlying areas are drenched in traffic noise. I've looked at houses in Rothwell, Ardsley, Thorpe, Middleton etc and it's horrendous It sure is...............I live in it.

thanks for the replies, that is more than i have recieved from highways, councillors nash and iqbal (apparently their ward) and from an article i instigated in the YEP, i had sumised the excavation was the problem, didnt realise it was a legal matter, just fix it and sue whoever for the cost, really strong concrete wall should do, oh and traffic vise unless you can hear it up on the hill, we cant further over, perhaps i should have lied about that since everyone now seems to live here and wants to get to stourton junction M621 on a morning , the queue often ends at jaw bones! amazing how people think they can just dig out things without consequence though, incidently that old bell pit that was fenced off at the Rothwell side has dissapeared , would imagine the water from here would impact said area,