From Brent Council
Wembley Triangle – 1 month ahead of schedule
We are pleased to inform you that the works are progressing really well and we should be opening all routes on Friday, 18 April 2025.
Please find below summary timeline for the remaining works:
- Saturday, 12 April. Wembley High Road will open on temporary road surface from 5am. Access to Wembley High Road from Wembley Hill Road and Ecclestone Place will remain closed.
- Monday, 14 April. Wembley High Road will be closed for road resurfacing from 8pm to 5am. Access to Wembley High Road from Wembley Hill Road and Ecclestone Place will remain closed.
- Friday, 18 April. All routes will be open as usual as our upgrades will be complete.
26 comments:
Come on nobody believes this stuff. Brent Council over estimated the time it would take, so then when they finish one month ahead of what was quoted it makes them look good.
The proof will be in 6 months when the road surface has settled properly and we no longer have the Buses causing it to buckle under the weight.
Hip Hip Hurray, crack open the Champagne.
The movement of the massive car-free housed population of the new Great Western Tower Hundreds City is a transport infrastructure austerity issue ongoing, with many new direct and to scale active travel routes, cycleways, bridges over rail lines and roads, between towers needed. Do decision makers have any interest in such assisted living investments for these global population mega growth zones? The answer to date has been NO, with bad growth/ no welfare state infrastructure policies preferred.
It seems they finished early because the work than has been carried out is poor. Manways, drains are sticking out and double yellow lines have already been painted though the raised drains & manways. Matter of months when it require repairs. Waste of tax payers money - do it right and get it done proper…
I have seen the road and if Brent believe this is finished and will last then your are dreaming. The drain and access furniture are all above the some so called finished road and the yellow lines painted over these humps. What a waste of tax payers money - road will need repairing in a few months.
I’m pleased that it’s reopening but when they said 5 months initially I found it hard to believe considering the works site was so small.
Clinical lol but probably true
Road works in Alperton from 18.4 to 21.4 😞
Anon April 12th 12.11 I understand that the final surface is to be completed next week.
Zooming out. Still think that the Wembley-Wembley Park movement connectivity is very poor and not to scale or purpose for so many new car-free housing towers. Congestion, congestion, congestion.... Other countries would approach this differently and design high quality direct active travel infrastructure in for these W/ WP towers to integrate and connect them all better.
As it’s in Wembley, where councillors love and spend all their time, they were on top of it. Everywhere else roadworks pop up with nobody working with any sense or urgency.
They had to dig deep though
None of the less cynical comments are being published
Can these completely gibberish nonsense responses please get deleted. They ruin the blog.
Correct. The final surface doesn't go down until the very least days. Can't believe the negativity on here... For once Brent get something done ahead of schedule and still no one is happy!
Anon 13th April 17.17 - There are no 'less cynical' comments that have not been pubished as far as I have been able to check. Do submit one...
Mid May was no doubt the worst case scenario! They wouldn't risk it running into Cup Final season, especially with Man Utd threatening to build the Wembley of the north to woo Cup Finals and England home games away from Wembley.
Let's hope the work has been done properly to avoid further repeated roadworks as we are continually getting elsewhere in Brent.
Alright, let’s cut to the chase. What we’re seeing here isn’t just petty criticism of roadworks… this is a glaring example of classist, racist, and elitist thinking at play, and it’s high time we called it out for what it is.
This whole mindset… scoffing at the progress in areas like Wembley, throwing shade at upgrades happening a month early, claiming the work is “shoddy” or “poor quality” is rooted in a deep-seated, racialised, and class-based disdain for working-class, minority-majority communities. truth is, people seem perfectly comfortable dismissing any investment in these areas, assuming that these spaces… full of working-class families and people of colour… don’t deserve high-quality infrastructure or long-term planning. The message is clear: these communities are disposable, their needs are secondary, and the work can be half-assed because who really cares about the quality of life for these people?
But here’s the real kicker: when these same critiques are directed at wealthy, predominantly white areas, there’s a deafening silence. Suddenly, the conversation shifts. The criticisms are more measured, the concerns are more tactful, and the entire narrative is spun to suggest that these areas deserve to be prioritised. Why? Because those areas are white, affluent, and connected to the powers that be. So, when a council actually gets something done in a working-class, racialised area like Wembley, suddenly it’s treated as an insult. “Oh, it’s rushed. It’s not perfect. It’s a waste of taxpayer money.” Tell me, when have you ever heard that level of negativity about an area like Knightsbridge or Chelsea when their infrastructure work isn’t up to scratch?
Let’s be real here: this isn’t about roads or yellow lines… It’s about how we view people in these areas and how, in this so-called progressive society, we still hold these communities to lower standards. We still don’t value them as much as others. It’s about whiteness… the privilege that comes with it, and how it shows up in every aspect of urban development. The reason we don’t demand the same standard of work for these areas is because we’ve internalised the idea that poor, working-class, and racially diverse communities aren’t worthy of the same investment… They’re just another space to be tolerated, not truly cared for.
look at the rhetoric around “taxpayer money” in these comments… It’s not a genuine concern, it’s a coded attack on the people who live there. the implication is always the same: these communities don’t deserve the infrastructure, the upgrades, or the investment. THEIR needs don’t matter enough to warrant long-term, quality development… ****Meanwhile****, communities that are wealthier and whiter get everything handed to them without so much as a second glance at the cost or quality.
It’s time to wake up and stop pretending these critiques are about the roadworks… This is about a deeply ingrained system that continues to treat working-class, minority-majority areas like Wembley as second-class citizens. It’s about the systemic racism and classism that inform every decision made about these spaces. So, instead of bashing the work that’s actually being done, let’s turn the focus to the real problem: the system that keeps these areas underfunded, underdeveloped, and treated like they don’t matter. It’s time to fight for these communities the same way we would for the wealthier, predominantly white parts of London…
👏They 👏 deserve 👏 nothing 👏 less.
Are you saying that Chiswick no towers, car owners, citizen conservation zone gets the new in C21 active travel walk/ cycle bridges (x2) over its railway lines and river walk severances, while Wembley/ Wembley Park car-free housing many towers non-place does not?
Non-place politics is about where non-citizens are zoned in/red lined to be extracted from and contained as forever precarious, forever development management.
Satire?
Spot on!!! no more new roads. We’re in a climate crisis and building more roads just means more traffic, more pollution, and more harm to the planet. Instead of pouring money into making it easier to drive, we should be investing in better buses, trains, walking routes, and safe cycling paths. That’s what a modern, future-ready city looks like.
And it’s only fair that parking permits are phased out for everyone, not just people in tower blocks. Over four years, Labour can slowly remove permits for all homes, giving people time to adjust and making space for greener, cleaner transport. We need less driving, not more. Cleaner air, less traffic, safer streets, that’s the goal. And this is how we get there.
Do you have any idea how many bus routes the Mayor of London has cut in recent years? Bus services are not as regular or reliable as they used to be but fares keep going up 😔
BBC News - London bus miles cut by 22 million in six years
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpde37700jjo
The road is complete apart from adding the final 50mm wearing course, which is a different material to the layers below. This will bring the finished surface up to the level of manholes and drains etc. The small ramps of asphalt around the raised drains will be removed prior to this as it is sacrificial. The yellow lines and other road markings will then be reinstated again.
Before talking about “Shoddy workmanship” certain people should read upon how a road is constructed and why.
Maybe the original programme gave the contractor a lot of float, but either way the road has had a full depth reconstruction and reopened early. Reasons to be cheerful…….
Thank you for pointing that out
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