davieG Posted 11 February 2016 Posted 11 February 2016 By Leicester Mercury | Posted: February 11, 2016 By Samantha Fisher Alex Hannam New Parks Way to be shut for more than one week Comments (0)A section of ring road will be closed for more than a week for resurfacing. New Parks Way will be shut between the Groby Road and Glenfield Road/Dominion Road roundabouts. The work is part of the Leicester North West Major Transport Scheme, to improve the A50 corridor into the city. The closure will be in place from 10pm tomorrow night to 6am on Monday, February 22. A city council spokesman said the work was being done during the half-term school holidays, when there was 15 to 20 per cent less traffic using the road. He said: "Once completed, the road network linking the north west of the county to the city will be better equipped to handle the predicted increase in traffic from planned developments in this area over the next 10 to 20 years." The project is being run jointly between the city and county councils, with most of the funding being provided from central Government through Leicester and Leicestershire Enterprise Partnership (LLEP) Local Growth Fund. Contractor Eurovia, which recently completed £20 million of road improvements in Loughborough, is carrying out the work. The first phase of work involves improvements at three main junctions: the A50 Glenfield Turn (County Hall) roundabout joining the A50 Groby Road, Gynsill Lane and Station Road; the A50 Groby Road/A563 New Parks Way roundabout; and the junction of New Parks Way and Aikman Avenue. This phase will cost about £8.5 million, of which £5.5 million has been secured by the LLEP from the Government, with the remaining £3 million split equally between the city and county councils. Maps of the works can be found at a number of libraries and there is a display about it at Glenfield Hospital. For more, visit: www.leics.gov.uk/overview Diversions and bus route changes A diversion will take A563 outer ring road traffic from the Groby Road roundabout east along Groby Road, Fosse Road North, Henley Road and Glenfield Road. Traffic can also use the A46 western bypass. Coming from the south on the A563, drivers can divert on to Hinckley Road and B5380 Ratby Lane. From the east, vehicles can use the A46. There will be no access to New Parks Way from Kemp Road, Dillon Way, Aikman Avenue or Battersbee Road. Some Aikman Avenue and Battersbee Road bus services will be affected. Information will be posted on bus stops. Service 14A will not stop at Aikman Avenue shops or in New Parks Way for most of the closure. Instead, it will go via Pindar Road, Birds Nest Avenue, Dillon Road, Dillon Way and New Parks Way. Service 14 will be unaffected. On the morning and early afternoon of Sunday, February 21, there will be no access to Dillon Way. Service 14A will run normally to Aikman Avenue and to Dominion Road. Connecting shuttle buses will run between Dominion Road and Glenfield Hospital and Beaumont Centre. Service 14A will use Dillon Way on February 21 when work is completed. Service 162 will be diverted via Dillon Road, Birds Nest Avenue, Pindar Road and Aikman Avenue. Read more: http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/New-Parks-Way-close-week/story-28716889-detail/story.html#ixzz3ztIhN3k7 Follow us: @@leicester_Merc on Twitter | leicestermercury on Facebook
Libertine Posted 11 February 2016 Posted 11 February 2016 Gonna be a nightmare but it's half-term at least.
SystonFox Posted 11 February 2016 Posted 11 February 2016 Just bomb the whole area. New parks. Glen field. Beaumont leys.!fosse road too
pSinatra Posted 11 February 2016 Posted 11 February 2016 They may as well close it as It's been impassable for months & I can't really notice what improvements they're making. It looks exactly the same layout with some new tarmac & some new kerb stones. £20m to build cycle lanes? The Council are mental if they think they've cured traffic problems around there for the next 20 years.
Buzzell Posted 11 February 2016 Posted 11 February 2016 Absolute nightmare for me getting work. Gunna be a right bastard even more trying to get on the A46.
potter3 Posted 11 February 2016 Posted 11 February 2016 The A50 is completely random in the morning anyway, sometimes it takes me 30 mins to get into town, sometimes an hour and a half.
Happy Fox Posted 11 February 2016 Posted 11 February 2016 Just bomb the whole area. New parks. Glen field. Beaumont leys.!fosse road too Not Glenfield
GaelicFox Posted 11 February 2016 Posted 11 February 2016 Just bomb the whole area. New parks. Glen field. Beaumont leys.!fosse road too Any particular warhead ?
Dan Posted 11 February 2016 Posted 11 February 2016 Getting into work next week is going to be a disaster.
Stadt Posted 11 February 2016 Posted 11 February 2016 Just bomb the whole area. New parks. Glen field. Beaumont leys.!fosse road too *Glenfield
Wymsey Posted 11 February 2016 Posted 11 February 2016 There's work being done on the roundabout near to the hospital in Glenfield as well (if you turn left at the roundabout in the above picture, and continue downhill). Don't think it's necessary as you'll always get someone who'll drive in the wrong lane, cut in and cause an accident.
Buzzell Posted 12 February 2016 Posted 12 February 2016 Just bomb the whole area. New parks. Glen field. Beaumont leys.!fosse road too My response to that would be to bulldoze Syston. But saying that I would miss the Syston bakery. Best and cheapest breakfast cobs around.
Rincewind Posted 12 February 2016 Posted 12 February 2016 One week is not much. Some areas have had roadworks for over six months.
kingcarr21 Posted 12 February 2016 Posted 12 February 2016 Just bomb the whole area. New parks. Glen field. Beaumont leys.!fosse road too UP THE GLENFIELD MASSIVE. Syston. More like SHITESTON AMIRITEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
SpacedX Posted 12 February 2016 Posted 12 February 2016 Any particular warhead ? I think I may be able to help there.This is actually Kim Jong-Un's favourite current iPhone app. http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/ Last week I had the pleasure of nuking Coventry although The Tsar Bomb pretty much reduced the entire West Midlands to a cinder.
GaelicFox Posted 12 February 2016 Posted 12 February 2016 UP THE GLENFIELD MASSIVE. Syston. More like SHITESTON AMIRITEEEEEEEEEEEEEE What's in Glenfield apart from a hospital and council offices ?
davieG Posted 12 February 2016 Author Posted 12 February 2016 One week is not much. Some areas have had roadworks for over six months. The road works have been there for months this is in addition to that and just to clarify it's not just road works it's total closure of very busy section of the ring road.
Thracian Posted 12 February 2016 Posted 12 February 2016 Chaos on City of Leicester roads? I'm surprised anyone comments anymore. There are two things mentioned about Leicester when I'm working away .... Our fabulous football team. And "I never go to Leicester - the roads are a nightmare".
kingcarr21 Posted 12 February 2016 Posted 12 February 2016 What's in Glenfield apart from a hospital and council offices ? I take it you couldn't tell I was taking the piss. Glenfield is a bore fest nothing happens here. We have Faire road shops and Sands that's about as exciting as it gets
Guest MattP Posted 12 February 2016 Posted 12 February 2016 I take it you couldn't tell I was taking the piss. Glenfield is a bore fest nothing happens here. We have Faire road shops and Sands that's about as exciting as it gets Sacrilege! Glenfield is wonderful, two lovely churches, 3 great pubs that all offer something different, summer petangue in the park which combines with the annual competition for drunkest man in the village, Glenfield Tunnel, Langton's butchers, the Christmas tree in the square, some lovely scenary at the Gynsills nature reserve, Glenstock, good food at Troodos and Sands (if you like that stuff), and more importantly refuge from Anstey.
Finnegan Posted 12 February 2016 Posted 12 February 2016 Chaos on City of Leicester roads? I'm surprised anyone comments anymore. There are two things mentioned about Leicester when I'm working away .... Our fabulous football team. And "I never go to Leicester - the roads are a nightmare". So surely it's good that we're working on improving them...?
kingcarr21 Posted 12 February 2016 Posted 12 February 2016 Sacrilege! Glenfield is wonderful, two lovely churches, 3 great pubs that all offer something different, summer petangue in the park which combines with the annual competition for drunkest man in the village, Glenfield Tunnel, Langton's butchers, the Christmas tree in the square, some lovely scenary at the Gynsills nature reserve, Glenstock, good food at Troodos and Sands (if you like that stuff), and more importantly refuge from Anstey. This is certainly the best part about Glenfield. Me personally I worked at Gynsills for years so nothing about that place/area fills me with pleasure. Troodos food is terrible (admittedly I haven't been in a while) and Glenstock just takes the piss when queueing for a drink. Glenny Tunnel now that brings back memories of breaking into it years ago and walking to the other end. I will certainly give you the butchers. Scott is doing a fantastic job there after taking over and I really like Sands. The tree always looks nice. All these things are great but I would suggest every village has these aswel. Hence why I said its a bore fest as there isn't much else that stands out compared to other villages. Syston has a nice church and probably nice pubs and a good butchers. Maybe i'm just being boring.
Soar Fox Posted 12 February 2016 Posted 12 February 2016 I take it you couldn't tell I was taking the piss. Glenfield is a bore fest nothing happens here. We have Faire road shops and Sands that's about as exciting as it gets You've got The Forge which is a great pub. Try living in Glen Parva, no restaurants, no pubs, no takeaways. All we've got is 3 shops, a dentist, a post office, a barbers and a cob shop.
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