'Supercrossing' & Opening up of Putney Road

[davieG]

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/supercrossing-plan-help-leicester-city-5303389

 

'Supercrossing' plan to help Leicester City fans get to the King Power Stadium
It is part of a wider £2.9 million transport scheme near the ground.

ByDan MartinAgenda Editor
05:00, 16 APR 2021UPDATED08:36, 16 APR 2021

A ‘supercrossing’ is planned to help large numbers of football fans to get to Leicester City’s King Power Stadium on match days.

The proposal would see the junction of Aylestone Road and Putney Road, near the ground remodeled to make it easier for people on foot or bikes to get around the area.

It is part of a new £2.9 million package of proposed pedestrian and cycling improvements which will go alongside a £5 million plan to open Putney Road to through traffic as a link road between Aylestone Road and Welford Road.

Segregated cycling routes are now proposed to the new University of Leicester Freemen’s Common Campus at Welford Road.

A new toucan cycle and pedestrian crossing will be provided at Commercial Square in Freemen’s Common.

Leicester deputy City Mayor for Environment and Transportation councillor Adam Clarke, said: “The opportunity to include in this scheme a range of sustainable transport links makes sense, and carrying out the work at the same time as the main project means we won’t need to cause further disruption by revisiting it in future.

“We envisage this junction will become a major connectivity point in the light of new and proposed developments, such as the proposed expansion of the football stadium and the University of Leicester’s Freemen’s Common campus.

“The scheme also ties in with proposed cycleway connections to communities served by Saffron Lane, making high-quality infrastructure at Putney Road a must.

"These latest additions complement the original scheme and help to better connect the new road layout with other developments through a network of better cycling and walking links.

“This additional dimension to the project will be funded by existing city council budgets fed by Department for Transport funding for this sort of work.”

 

Contractors, Balfour Beatty are due to begin construction work in May and works are expected to continue until next summer.

The plan to open up Putney Road, currently closed off at the Aylestone Road end, to through traffic has been unpopular with people living on Victoria Park Road who fear it will hugely increase the volume of traffic passing their homes.

The city council however believes it will prevent current rat-running through Clarendon Park’s residential streets.

[LVFox]

Is a "supercrossing" the same as a "bridge" ?

[Sol thewall Bamba]

Everyone knows pedestrians have priority on matchday. 

[yorkie1999]

Extra 10000 fans, what we gonna do about getting those fans into and out of the ground? Stick a bridge across Aylestone road and hope they all turn up on pushbikes, that'll sort it.

[davieG]

24 minutes ago, LVocey said:

Is a "supercrossing" the same as a "bridge" ?

Just an extra wide crossing like the one outside the London Road Railway Station to Granby St.

 

[KrefelderFox666]

Just build that bridge over the canal, job done. But it would have to be a "superbridge".

[Gary Eatfood]

Councillor Adam Clarke drinks in my local and he's always reminded me of Avon from Blake's 7.

[Collymore]

The railway line runs behind the stadium so why not build a station? 

[davieG]

1 hour ago, Collymore said:

The railway line runs behind the stadium so why not build a station? 

People are trying

 

https://ivanhoeline.org/

 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/220065222221824

[willie-bell-in-rothley]

I still dont understand why the park and ride in Birstall doesn't run buses on match days , they have said for a couple of years that they are losing money, i know its a testing area at the moment but will not always be, im sure a lot of the fans in surrounding villages and Melton , Loughborough ect would use it

Edited 26 April 2021 by willie-bell-in-rothley
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[Saxondale]

On 16/04/2021 at 09:11, LVocey said:

Is a "supercrossing" the same as a "bridge" ?

No, disappointingly, a super crossing is the same as a pelican crossing.

[promised land]

On 26/04/2021 at 07:22, willie-bell-in-rothley said:

I still dont understand why the park and ride in Birstall doesn't run buses on match days , they have said for a couple of years that they are losing money, i know its a testing area at the moment but will not always be, im sure a lot of the fans in surrounding villages and Melton , Loughborough ect would use it

Odd one isn’t it as when the Rugby World Cup matches were at the KP they did lay on buses from there so have some info on how it went.

 

But where in Leicester would you have to catch it after the game? Back at St Margaret’s? If so you could be home the time it takes you to walk back to there.