Warning of months of road work traffic disruption (Ring Rd to Almond Rd (Morrisson's) July 10th to End of October)

[davieG]

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/warning-months-road-work-traffic-5599963

 

A £3 million scheme to repair the road is about to start

ByDan MartinAgenda Editor
04:00, 2 JUL 2021

A £3 million revamp of a stretch of one of Leicester’s busiest roads is set to start shortly.

The project to repair and remodel part of the Welford Road corridor and surrounding streets will involve more than 56,000 square metres of carriageway being resurfaced, Leicester City Council said.

It will centre on resurfacing sections of Welford Road itself, from its junction with the city’s outer ring road to its junction with Almond Road, near the Morrison’s supermarket.

Work, which will involve a number of 'short-term road closures which will cause disruption to traffic, begins on Saturday, July 10, and is likely to last until the end of October.

How will traffic be affected?
The first phase, from Saturday to Friday, July 10 to 16, will see Welford Road closed to outbound traffic between Aberdale Road and Hillcrest Road, with the closure swapping over to inbound traffic on the same section from Saturday, July 17 to the following Wednesday for resurfacing.
At the same time, work will begin on Asquith Way, which will be closed in both directions between Welford Road and Shackerdale Road from Saturday, July 17 to the following Saturday.
Resurfacing work will take place on Asquith Way between Shackerdale Road and Windley Road, with that section of the road closed in both directions from Sunday to Friday, July 25 to 30.
Local diversions will be in place and signposted throughout.

Exact timings are still being finalised with the contractors Aggregate Industries on some phases of resurfacing work along sections of Welford Road, which are due to take place in stages between Saturday, July 31 and Saturday, August 21.

Those phases of work will include a section of Welford Road from Knighton Lane East to Wordsworth Road; a section between Wordsworth Road and Putney Road; the stretch between Victoria Park Road and Stanfell Road and a section from Chapel Lane to Stanfell Road.

All will involve short-term road closures to allow for a new carriageway surface to be applied.

 

Work on the parts of the route nearest to the city is due to be carried out overnight, with complete road closures in place to enable it to be done safely.

They include the section of Welford Road from University Road to Almond Road, which will involve overnight road closures in both directions from Sunday to Friday, August 22 to 27, and a similar approach for Almond Road, between Welford Road and the access to the Morrison’s supermarket, with overnight closures from Saturday to Tuesday, August 28 to 31.

Improvements will be made to pavements along part of the route also starting in July, as part of the overall programme.

They include removing the slabs and block paving between Chapel Lane and Victoria Park Road on both sides, and replacing them with a new asphalt surface.

The work will run until the end of October.

The last part of the work will see traffic signals upgraded at the junction of Welford Road and Palmerston Way at the city’s outer ring road.

The signal replacement work will be done under various lane closures from Saturday, October 16 to Saturday, November 6.

[jammie82uk]

3 hours ago, davieG said:

Exact timings are still being finalised with the contractors Aggregate Industries on some phases of resurfacing work along sections of Welford Road, which are due to take place in stages between Saturday, July 31 and Saturday, August 21.

Those phases of work will include a section of Welford Road from Knighton Lane East to Wordsworth Road; a section between Wordsworth Road and Putney Road; the stretch between Victoria Park Road and Stanfell Road and a section from Chapel Lane to Stanfell Road.

Well that’s interesting as I live in this area and have received an letter from the council stating work is starting in my area on the 12th of July and will take up to 16 weeks to complete