EN125 Roadworks Update...

As we are heading into the road works season, your intrepid correspondent braved the EN 125 from Faro to Albufeira this morning out of love for you, dear forummies - here is the transport news, live from the spare room... 

All is good until you approach the turning for Vale Judeu, where they are creating the long expected roundabout, so there are lights there. Move on to just east of Maritenda (just after the M526 turn off - that's the road that goes past Kadoc) where the railway bridge is being re-built, the whole west bound lane is no longer there, so contra-flow means more lights. The Boliqueme roundabout is still not quite finished, no lights, few signposts and no road markings yet, but traffic flowing okay.

East of Pata, as you come up the hill there are more lights where they may or may not be creating another roundabout, it's hard to tell, but they have certainly widened the road and there are a lot of very large concrete pipes stacked up next to the road. There does not appear to be much of a turning there to speak of, but that has not stopped the powers that be creating roundabouts-to-nowhere-in-particular elsewhere on the 125, so who knows.

The railway bridge just east of the Albufeira/Ferreiras is also being rebuilt in a similar way to that at Maritendo, so again long delays at traffic lights for the contraflow.

Finally a "roundabout" has been created out of those big plastic blocks at said Albufeira/Ferreiras turn off, replacing the lights. It's a bit of a confusing higgledy piggledy mess at the moment - I wish luck to the inexperienced driver approaching it.   

That's all from this bulletin of Algarve summer chaos, stay tuned for more road based madness. Meanwhile, back to the music. Here's Bachman Turner Overdrive. Lets Rock!