Long-awaited highway improvements to alleviate the daily traffic queues at an increasingly busy village crossroads are starting this weekend – and will take around five months to complete.
As previously reported, local frustrations have been mounting about peak-time tailbacks at the Kirk Lane/Loughborough Road/Flawforth Lane traffic lights in Ruddington. It’s as hundreds of families continue to move into four major new housing developments here (approved over three years’ ago as part of the Rushcliffe Borough Council (RBC) ‘Local Plan Part Two’) before the mandated improvement works to add extra turning lanes at this critical junction have been carried out.
These considerably overdue works are beginning during the second, third and fourth weekends in July, with preparatory work by National Grid*. This will continue with another week of work in September***. Alongside this electricity work, the further package of agreed improvements will continue when different parties undertake their respective works.
It comes after the signing of the ‘Section 278’ legal agreement recently, followed by a meeting last month at which VIA East Midlands was presented with the fine details of all necessary works and a timetable to undertake them.
Long-suffering motorists and local residents are being reassured these works have been co-ordinated to minimise disruption to road users – and that everything should be completed by the end of November 2023. However, during this period, significant delays are inevitable due to the large volume of traffic which now passes through this junction on a daily basis.
Additionally, St John’s Road – a popular Ruddington shortcut – will be closed to traffic from July 24th to 28th for further National Grid work, meaning motorists will need to travel via the village centre to get into the estate or out onto Loughborough Road.**
The full list of Ruddington roadworks of which we are aware currently is below:-
*Saturdays & Sundays 8th/9th, 15th/16th and 22nd/23rd July – multi-way signals at the Kirk Lane/Loughborough Road/Flawforth Lane crossroads – start of major junction improvement work – ‘Cable Reinforcement Scheme’ by National Grid.
**Monday 24th July to Friday 28th July – closure of St John’s Road – diversions signed via Easthorpe Street – utility asset works by National Grid.
Thursday 27th July – 9.30am to 3.30pm – three way signals at the junction of Wilford Road and Landmere Lane near Ruddington Manor Care Home – Polling works by BT Openreach to facilitate overhead spine cabling.
Thursday 27th July to Thursday 31st August – utility asset works on St Mary’s Crescent, Rufford Road and Easthorpe Street with temporary traffic lights also in use – by National Grid.
Monday 4th September to Tuesday 12th September – closure of Landmere Lane between Old Loughborough Road and the A52 access – diversions in use – large scale bespoke c/w patching repairs (preventative maintenance) by Nottinghamshire County Council.
***Thursday 7th September 2023 at 8.00am to Friday 15th September 2023 at 4.00pm – multi-way signals on Loughborough Road near the Kirk Lane junction – utility asset works by National Grid.
Looking into next year, National Highways has announced the long planned major roadworks to enlarge both the Nottingham Knight Island and Wheatcroft Island on the A52 should begin in September 2024. Find more details >>HERE<<.
Residents and visitors should anticipate delays and diversions for motorists, and also for passengers using Kinchbus 9, Nottingham City Transport’s Navy 3 & Green 10/10C/10X buses and the NottsBus Connect Service 863 during these roadworks.
RUDDINGTON.info will bring you details of further village roadworks as we receive them.
{PLEASE NOTE: The information above is subject to potential change and updates due to the weather and other operational reasons. We will provide timely revisions, here on our website, whenever we can. LAST UPDATE: Sunday 23rd July 2023.}
