Calming bollards pointless and ridiculous

I may be stating the obvious here and, while I appreciate this closure is at the behest of Network Rail, surely someone at Stirling Council planning department will see sense and remove those pointless and ridiculous traffic calming bollards on Forthside Way, alongside the Chandlers Court flats.

As a fair percentage of re-routed traffic will be using this road, these monstrosities have been the root cause of tailbacks in and around Riverside, leading to stand offs and congestion on Friday on an unprecedented scale.

The very notion or requirement of ‘traffic calming’ at this bottleneck is completely redundant anyway. You would like to think someone in a position of authority will have had feedback on this or seen at first hand the nightmare delays caused directly by these useless things now that increased volumes of traffic will be present here for some considerable time.

Mind you, common sense around the planning and management over this road closure has been thin on the ground since the incredulous year-long timescale was announced.

Football stadiums, high rise buildings, tunnels etc have been constructed in far less time than the 12 months it is apparently going to take to replace a 20-metre long section of bridge here. Has anyone at Network Rail explained or justified why on earth this is estimated to take a full year to complete?

Darren Park, by email