This is completely avoidable and the contractors responsible know this. All that is needed on the site of St David's 2 is a couple of mobile wheel washes. Lorries would drive off the building site and all the mud is washed off the wheels and the lorry comes off the site leaving no mud on the road.
I drove long distance for more than 20 years and delivered to many big developments all over London.
You never see mud on the roads of the capital. They would not put up with it, they have been using wheel washes since the Eighties and most of the companies involved in the St David's 2 project have worked on major developments in London.
They know how to prevent this but won't pay out a couple of thousand pounds for wheel washes in Cardiff.
This project is worth pounds 675m and is due to go on for three years. Surely Cardiff council's environmental department should be making these companies clean up their act?
It seems like you can get fined these days for dropping a cigarette end on the scaffolding london floor, but deposit a couple of tons of mud and you're OK.
It is making the roads in the city centre an accident waiting to happen.
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