Long-awaited highway improvements to alleviate the daily traffic queues at an increasingly busy Ruddington crossroads are scheduled to begin next month.
As previously reported, local frustrations have been mounting about peak-time tailbacks at the Kirk Lane/Loughborough Road/Flawforth Lane traffic lights. It’s as hundreds of families continue to move into Ruddington’s four major new housing developments (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.
RUDDINGTON.info has learned that these considerably overdue works are set to start during the second and third weekends in July, beginning with National Grid*. Thereafter, 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 another meeting this week 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, sadly these aren’t the only Ruddington roadworks likely to cause delays for drivers in the next couple of months. Others which we are aware of are also listed below:-
Saturday 24th June 2023 & Sunday 25th June 2023 – 08:00 Hours To 18:00 Hours – Four-Way Temporary Traffic Signals on Mere Way at the roundabout with A60 Loughborough Road – Installation of 3 x MIMO Antenna by O2.
Wednesday 28th June at 9.30am until Friday 30th June 2023 at 3.30pm – lane closures on Loughborough Road, on the approach to the A60 Nottingham Knight Roundabout – Emergency roadworks to break out defective carriageway areas and reinstate them – by Nottinghamshire County Council.
Monday 3rd July 2023 from 08:00 hours until 17:00 hours on Wednesday 5th July 2023 inclusive – Temporary road closure of Clifton Avenue from its junction with Clifton Road for its full length – for Severn Trent Water pipe repair works.
*Saturdays & Sundays 8th/9th and 15th/16th 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.
Wednesday 5th & Thursday 6th July 2023 – closure of Abington Drive for large scale bespoke c/w patching repairs – RETURN VISIT by NCC TO COMPLETE WORK outside nos 4, 5, 6 and 10 – 14 with diversions via Lower Canaan.
Additionally, from the 27th July to 31st August, National Grid will be carrying out utility asset works on St Mary’s Crescent, Rufford Road and Easthorpe Street with temporary traffic lights also in use.
Further ahead:-
Thursday 7th September 2023 at 8.00am to 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: Tuesday 27th June 2023.}
