January 2017
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Work under way at the Aztec West Roundabout as part of the A38 widening scheme
Four-day lane closure on A38 in January
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outh Gloucestershire Council has announced plans to close the inside lane of the A38 southbound approach to the Aztec West Roundabout for three days in January, in order to carry out a “significant” gas main diversion. The move breaks an assurance given by the council prior to the commencement of the project that major carriageway work would not be carried out on the A38 until “after the Bradley Stoke Way section of the MetroBus works has been completed”. The work on the A38 is being funded as part of an £18.1 million Growth Deal award made to the West of England Local Enterprise Partnership and is intended to “mitigate the impact of traffic arising from new developments”, such as the Cribbs/Patchway New Neighbourhood where 5,700 new homes are expected to be constructed by 2027. The upcoming carriageway
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work, which is being carried out jointly with Wales & West Utilities, will commence on the evening of Thursday 12th January 2017, when a lane closure will be placed on the A38 southbound. This will reduce the number of traffic lanes from four down to three. The lane closure will then stay in place throughout the whole of the following Friday, Saturday and Sunday while the gas diversion is being completed. It is anticipated that the diversion will be finished in time for reopening the lane for the morning peak of Monday 16th January. A South Gloucestershire Council spokesperson said: “The work has been planned for January in order to have the least impact on traffic, although motorists are advised to allow additional journey time to mitigate for any delays.” Commenting on the overlap with the ongoing MetroBus
works on Bradley Stoke Way, the spokesperson added: “The current major construction work taking place on the A38 southbound is advanced utility work and this has been planned and booked many months in advance. Unfortunately, delays in the MetroBus project will see an overlap of work. However this has been mitigated as much as possible by removing the central reserve, creating an additional lane, and 24-hour working over a four day period. Cancelling the work was not possible without causing major impacts on budgets and the timing of the overall construction programme.” The spokesperson gave an
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assurance that “no more major daytime carriageway lane closures are anticipated on the A38 during the current MetroBus programme other than the gas main diversion planned for January”. Further lane closures will be needed on the A38, but these will be carried out once the MetroBus work in north Bradley Stoke has been completed (which is now estimated to be 17th March 2017; see page 19). Work on the A38 project started in May 2016 and is expected to be completed in autumn 2017. For more details of the scheme, and progress reports, visit http:// bit.ly/a38-roadworks-2016
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