May 2018
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SGC gears up to improve Rabbit Roundabout
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ith the jury still out on whether South Gloucestershire Council’s (SGC’s) recent £4.2m scheme to improve the Aztec West Roundabout and A38 has actually made matters worse, the council is already at the early planning stage of its next major roundabout improvement scheme, this time at the other end of Bradley Stoke Way. The new scheme is intended to increase capacity at Great Stoke Roundabout (a.k.a. Rabbit funding award stated that the Roundabout) as part of a package project is expected to cost a total of investments to support the of £4.7m, including development Filton Enterprise Area and and construction costs. the Cribbs/Patchway New Topographical and ground Neighbourhood (CPNN). penetrating radar surveys were An initial £550k of funding due to be carried out around was allocated to the project Great Stoke Roundabout as we last November by the West of went to press. England Combined Authority A council spokesperson (WECA), for the purpose of explained: “The project will developing a business case. A be designed to reduce traffic BSJ updated ads.qxp_Layout 21:16 Page 1 journey report submitted ahead of that 1 23/04/2018 congestion and improve
times and reliability (for cars as well as for MetroBus and other bus services). By reducing journey times we will reduce emissions. We also hope to make improvements for pedestrians and cyclists.” “We have allocated £550k to the feasibility assessments and pre-construction planning, which is expected to take place by spring 2020. At the end of these processes we will be able to
calculate the full project cost and the council will seek funding for the later phases and construction of the project through grants.” “Public consultation on the project will begin in August 2018, with project completion expected in the winter of 2022.” Further details revealed in the WECA report are that the resultant reconfigured roundabout is likely to be a three-lane circulatory system, including a segregated left-turn slip from Winterbourne Road east and three-lane entry from Winterbourne Road west. The report notes that any proposed construction start date will be “subject to the ability to occupy the network, depending on other programmed works” such as the Cribbs Patchway MetroBus Extension and Gipsy Patch Lane railway bridge replacement (currently scheduled to start in October 2019).
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