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Soooo when a road that people live on gets closed for roadworks, are they meant to like... tell the people that live on it? Because the first I'm hearing of them ripping up and repaving our road is when they parked a gigantic machine in front of our driveway at 7am that's making an absolute shit ton of noise. The housemate has a car that nobody told him he wouldn't be able to take out of the driveway either...
It's not on VicTraffic, they never put anything in our letterbox, and the council's project construction page says nothing's happening in the area
My pavement gets ripped up seemly every 2 months. Sometimes itβs gas, sometimes telecoms, sometimes fixing the mess the last lot made. Never any notice and they block the only way out of the building.
I usually get a letter telling me they're doing road works of some sort in my area. I can't remember who they came from though.
Last time I got a letter. From council I think? They're responsible for local roads. And then the planned date came and went, and they came and closed the road on a completely different date with no notice. I guess they kind of tried?
I had a letter posted about works that were nowhere near me, so disregarded it. Then I got a hastily hand addressed notice in my letterbox telling me about work starting the next day, so I think they stuffed up the address.
I haven't always been notified of work in the street where they are closing the roads, but they generally haven't completely blocked access, I've still been able to drive in and out with supervision (to make sure I don't run over the workers!). I did have to park a few houses away temporarily once when they did block access for a bit, but the workers were very friendly and helped me carry my groceries home π
Usually they do put something in the letterbox a couple of months in advance.
Nope, as far as I'm aware, nothing's been put in our letterbox about this ever
Oh look it might have blown away, letterbox got missed or you might not have got one at all but they do usually notify you.
Is there any cars not parked on the road that are normally there? That might be an indication that there was notification.
I don't believe so. I haven't checked this morning, but I do know last night (10 pmish) all the usual cars were parked outside. But it's hard to tell because a lot of people go to work early, so half the street would've already left by the time the road workers got here and started ripping things up