- Installing a new toucan crossing on Hollowstone.
- Creating a shared footway and cycleway on Hollowstone, between London Road and Hollowstone.
- Reallocating road space, including the removal of parking, to provide a segregated cycleway along Fisher Gate, linking with the new facility from London Road Island.
- Accommodation works at the Fisher Gate entrance/exit into Carter Gate.
- Resurfacing footways, where required.
- Resurfacing the road and installing new lining
- Landscaping and planting
London Road roundabout works – now complete
Work included:
- Reallocating roadspace to provide a segregated cycleway from Canal Street heading towards Bellar Gate
- New traffic signal equipment including signalised pedestrian and cycle crossings
- Improvements to footways
- Resurfacing the road and installing new lining
Temporary traffic signals are being monitored and changes being made to timings/layout to improve the traffic flow as we are continuing to experience queues at peak times. The temporary signals were upgraded to permanent ones in November 2023. Final aspects of resurfacing and landscaping will be completed in spring 2024.
Station Street/London Road junction works
Works took place through 2023 to:
- Dedicated segregated cycleway from London Road junction to join the recently completed Station Street cycleway
- Dedicated marked on- road cycleway for east/west cycle movements across the junction
- Right turn for cyclists facility (see below for further details)
- Signal pedestrian and cycle crossings on all arms of the junction
- Junction and footpath resurfacing
The junction uses a two stage turn arrangement to enable cyclists to turn right without having to move to the centre of the carriageway. This means as cyclists approach the junction from any of the four directions, they arrive at the junction on the carriageway rather than the new segregated facilities and can make a right-turn onto London Road, Station Street or Great Northern Close, a move banned for motor traffic.
Cyclists need to pull into an area of the carriageway in advance of the stop line and pedestrian crossing on their left, turn and face the direction of travel, and to wait there until that junction approach has a green cycle signal. At that point, cyclists travel forwards to complete their right turn. The waiting area is indicated by cycle symbols and a right turn arrow.
