Roadworks on FixMyStreet
Describe your idea:
Roadworks are a major cause of inconvenience, not only to motorists but also to local residents. Works that appear to go on forever, abandoned works, where the barriers have blown down, where materials have been dumped and abandoned, etc, etc. I know this because I run a project which gathers live roadworks from half of the local authorities in England & Wales – www.elgin.gov.uk. I would be interested in joining forces with FixMyStreet to enable people to contact the relevant organisation to fix roadworks that have gone wrong.
What problem does it solve?:
Empower users of FixMyStreet to alert the relevant local authority department and crucially the utility company and road contractor to roadworks that are unreasonable, abandoned or unsafe.
We have a mechanisim (XML web service) which would be straightforward to implement to get roadworks into FixMyStreet. Please get in touch if you think this is a good idea.
Type of idea: New feature for an existing project
Great suggestion James, I’m a fan of Elgin (although preferred the old map style to the current one – there was much more detail on the old style!) and would like to see details on roadworks such as who has requested the work and why.
I often see general roadworks and changes to road layouts and wonder who in the right mind would approve it. With this kind of information added onto FixMyStreet we would be able to find out!
I think this sounds a good idea. Presumably, only a small change to fixmystreet would be needed.
I don’t think any change is required? If it bothers someone enough, they will report it anyhow. It appears a few thousand people have already (see this list http://bit.ly/JPMz8)