As part of the Transforming Cities Funding Programme, there have been a series of highway user improvements along the A453/Queens Drive corridor including signalised junction upgrades to provide traffic light priority for buses, new and improved pedestrian and cycle crossings and better cycle links to routes to the west of the City through the Park and Ride site.
The last phase of this corridor’s improvements is to create a better link between the popular off-road Bird Cage Walk cycle and pedestrian route and routes along Meadows Way / River Trent / Queens Drive Park and Ride site by means of new crossings on Queens Drive and Meadows Way.
The new Queens Drive ‘staggered’ Toucan crossing provides a pedestrian and cycle facility as close to the Crossgate Drive junction as possible (where there are currently no safe crossing facilities). A small section of the verge area between Queens Drive and Meadows Way will be converted to a level crossing platform with a new bus set-down stop for outbound bus services. The platform will lead to a new parallel crossing on Meadows Way; the same layout that was provided in 2023 on Riverside Way and Meadows Way (near to Wickes).
Latest update February 2025
These works are now complete, we do appreciate your patience while this works have been taking place.
Our Tree Services team will be on site this spring doing some tree planting to replace some of the trees that needed to be removed due to this project.
