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Danger Blackburn underpass entrances concreted shut

9:21am Tuesday 9th March 2010 in


FORMER entrances to a Blackburn underpass were concreted shut yesterday.

Workers first built a breeze-block wall, before pouring concrete to ground level.

The entrances led to the underpass under Salford in the town centre, linking the market and Railway Road areas.

But they had been cordoned off for several years as the steps were in a dangerous condition.

The underpass can still be accessed by a separate entrance.

Comments(9)

jackson15 says...
9:50am Tue 9 Mar 10

hope they cleaned the excretion smeared interior

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burner says...
10:29am Tue 9 Mar 10

One wonders if they bothered to look if anyone was still in there??!!

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masterdebater.co.uk says...
12:45pm Tue 9 Mar 10

It's a bit of shame that as a society we can't have an underpass without it becoming a no-go area.

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retired one says...
6:29pm Tue 9 Mar 10

Concreted shut, but the underpass can still be accessed by a separate entrance?

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GrindletonBob says...
6:33pm Tue 9 Mar 10

Only the damaged steps have been concreted shut, you can still walk down the ramps. There have been railings up closing off the steps for a few years that seemed perfectly sufficient. Wonder where the money has come from to build the new walls, anyone would think that it's the end of the financial year!

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SirSteve says...
6:41pm Tue 9 Mar 10

Why couldn't they have spent the money repairing the steps?
Oh yeah, that involves logic and common sense, that's the council ruled out then...

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tenerc says...
8:06pm Tue 9 Mar 10

SirSteve wrote:
Why couldn't they have spent the money repairing the steps?
Oh yeah, that involves logic and common sense, that's the council ruled out then...
and also there steps, some drunk chav would fall down them and then phone some claims hotline before an ambulance.

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GrindletonBob says...
11:26pm Tue 9 Mar 10

SirSteve wrote:
Why couldn't they have spent the money repairing the steps? Oh yeah, that involves logic and common sense, that's the council ruled out then...
Surely it would have been easier to repair the steps rather than build a couple of large walls. Given this logic, I can see the pothole outside my house having a wall being built around it or even the entire road closed, rather than a bit of tarmac thrown in. The chavs do love to claim off the Council though, as it doesn't hit their pocket given they don't pay any Council tax! Possibly we should ban all steps, to follow the smoking, drinking, fatty food, supermarket plastic bags bans.

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bwithd says...
11:26am Wed 10 Mar 10

soon all there will be no underpass,
its all part of a cunning plan... to steer the sheep...er shoppers in the general direction of the new shopping mall to get you in there... you'll see , you robots

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