“It’s a half done job"....Workers resurface road AROUND parked cars leaving residents stunned
28.08.2022 - 18:37
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Workers have resurfaced a street around cars in Prestwich leaving residents gobsmacked. Neighbours came home to find the job had been left ‘half-done’ on their street.
The gravel put down a few days ago was successfully done and the notices to remove cars from the street had been taken down - meaning the Brandram Road residents thought it was fine to park their cars there. They were caught unawares when the workers returned and put a sticky resin [liquid bitumen] on top of the gravel to hold it in place, avoiding the areas where cars were parked.
“We left the cars for two days and we went away Friday afternoon and it was still under the road and we came back an hour ago to this,” Alicia McIntosh said.
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“To be fair it doesn’t bother me that much. The most annoying bit is trending the stones into the house.
“I’ve seen it [tarmacking around cars] before around here. If they wanted us to move it we could’ve done that so they could do a proper job.”
Like Alica, many of the residents had moved their cars when prompted to do so by Bury Council, but once the notices came down on Friday they brought them back onto the road as they thought the work was finished. Another resident described it as ‘strange’ and ‘half-done’.
“There were notices on the posts for no parking,” she said. “I think everyone parked with a car did move them.
“They put the gravel/shail stuff down and then took the notices off so we all thought it was done. Then we came back and they had squirted this stuff on it.
“If it was all like that it would be great. It’s messy as well [the gravel] because it gets everywhere.
“It was a surprise because nobody knew this was going to happen. It
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