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September 2020
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Summer roadworks “lock-in” for the Stokes Contact Us Editor: Stephen Horton info@bradleystokejournal.co.uk 01454 300 400 83 Snowberry Close Bradley Stoke Bristol BS32 8GB
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oad users in the Stokes have had to contend with multiple sets of roadworks and diversions across the area since the last week in July, leading some residents to joke that the council is imposing a summer ‘lock in’. Having grown used to the longterm closure of Gipsy Patch Lane at the railway bridge since March, motorists found another route out of the area barred to them from 27th July when Highways England began a six-week closure of Trench Lane (north Bradley Stoke) for bridge repairs. Further frustration was caused by the signed diversion for the Trench Lane closure directing traffic via Great Stoke (Rabbit) Roundabout, which was itself closed overnight for resurfacing for three weeks starting 5th
August, leading once again to questions about whether our various local councils and other agencies liaise sufficiently with each other to avoid such issues. Mid-August brought a further complication for those who thought they had sussed out their optimum routes for avoiding the Trench Lane and Great Stoke Roundabout works when Highways England closed Beacon Lane for several nights under the M4 bridge (near the Winter Stream Farm pub/restaurant). As if this wasn’t enough, letters circulated to stakeholders in early August advised that Orpheus Avenue in Little Stoke and the southern section of Brook Way in Bradley Stoke were to be subject to daytime closures over a fourweek period starting 13th August. Readers will recall from an article
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Trench Lane, closed at the motorway bridge near Woodlands Golf Course
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