Important: Shard HGV Routes published for Fri 16th > Sat 17th April 2010. Avoid area!

Does this need to be a sticky an ymore?

http://aseasyasridingabike.wordpress.com/2012/05/07/the-race-to-construct-the-shard/

A fairly well researched piece of speculation (partly, at least) by the As Easy As Riding A Bike blog, to bring this up-to-date.

It's pretty depressing reading really.

He makes a good point.

Having worked on many of Londons biggest construction sites for the last 3 years this is something i have had first hand experience of - the programming of a job, not being hit by the vehicles. Although when your destination is a massive construction site it does increase the number of big vehicles on your route.

This is also one of the reasons the petrol wagon drivers were striking...
They are simply being pushed too hard, with profit as the driving factor.

The bit that annoys me the most is that once you step over the threshold onto the site you will be immediately greeted with a 6 foot bill board claiming "Incident and Injury free for 90 days" or however long it's been since someone lost a finger.
Even when some poor fucker is lying under one of their wagons 30 metres down the road.

This struck me when the courier lad whose name I forget had a pretty serious do with a wagon servicing one of my projects on Victoria St last year.

This is only going to change is if accidents caused by or involving construction vehicles go down on the health and safety record of each individual project and company. None of the principal contractors want HSE breathing down their necks and they have gone to immense efforts in the last ten years to clean up building sites and make them safer, it's about time we acknowledged that the impact and inherant danger of large scale construction goes beyond the curtilage of the individual project.

This struck me when the courier lad whose name I forget had a pretty serious do with a wagon servicing one of my projects on Victoria St last year.

It was early this year:

https://www.lfgss.com/thread78154.html

His name is Andy.