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Help is at hand for the those who risk life and limb dodging the potholes in Crows Lane. Assuming work is not held up by the discovery of some unfortunate who met their end in one of the craters that currently adorn the road surface, work is scheduled for completion by mid March.

Anyone requiring information on closures etc should ring the 0845 number shown on the warning signs, although as can be seen from these two images, those at the Three Ways end are more likely to get an earful of Vivaldi as the Hall Lane sign has suffered an attack from Hampshire Highways resident grafitti artist.

The Lane has been closed to through traffic for the duration, so we can only hope that the temporary inconvenience will be rewarded with a silky smooth road surface when the work is finished.

 

Since the first action of the workforce was to reopen the trench (in the foreground) by Little Beloms, hopefully to bring the surface in line with the ever decreasing areas that remain pothole free, I suppose it is too much to hope that all planned excavations by the various services will be completed before resurfacing.

Incidentally this isn't a member of the official repair team approaching, this friendly local ( I hope I have interpreted the gesture correctly) observed last Sunday, was en route to some private road resurfacing in Stapleys Lane.

 

 

 

Fortunately your reporter can access the Rose and Crown from Hall Lane at all times but those approaching from Gaston Lane by wheeled transport may have to detour via Church Road and The Street to quench their thirst.

 

 

I am not sure if the current works include any drainage improvements to prevent the formation of the Crows Lake that threatens Little Beloms after every respectable rainfall but, going by the half baked drain clearing during the closure of Gaston Lane recently, I suspect this sort of expectation can safely be classified into the Extremely Optimistic category.

 

 

Perhaps Crows Lane residents will no longer have to negotiate the current batch of cracks potholes and crevasses in the future and will remember with nostalgia the wails of anguish from passing pedestrians, the cries of crashing cyclists and the creaks of overstressed suspensions as they negotiated the cratered road surface that will soon be but a fading memory.
(Disclaimer: Your reporter is not for one moment offering any guarantee that on completion, or at any time in the future Crows Lane will be pothole free, Please remember that road surfaces may go up and down at any time,)

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