Tag: Traffic

Wilford Road Water Work

Graham Wright

The new roadworks scheduled this week at Ruddington’s northern boundary have been delayed due to the icy conditions and predicted heavy snow. Two-way 24-hour temporary signals were due to be in operation on Wilford Road from first thing TODAY (Monday 26th February) until this Wednesday (28th February) around 40 metres south of the Landmere Lane junction. Severn Trent Water needs to dig up the road to install a new connection to an existing main in order to supply the new housing next to the new care home there. Once this work begins, traffic flow…

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‘Tavern Island’ Opens

Graham Wright

A road scheme to try to alleviate peak time traffic delays through our village has been completed today. After initially being delayed for six months due to a planning oversight, work by Nottinghamshire County Council to convert the busy Clifton Road/Wilford Road T-Junction into a mini-roundabout finally began on the 9th of January. The last cones were removed and the final road closure lifted just after lunchtime today. Normal bus services have restarted on Nottingham City Transport‘s Navy 3 service whilst the LocalLink L22 & LocalLink L23 buses run by Nottingham Community Transport will resume tomorrow…

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Roundabout Roundup

Graham Wright

With construction of our new Ruddington roundabout well underway we thought it was time to bring you a bit of a progress report in words and pictures… The work, which began on the 9th of January, is to convert the current T-Junction where Clifton Road meets Wilford Road into a roundabout.  You can read the background to this >>HERE<<. As you can see, a month on, most of the road widening work is now complete, with minimal impact on traffic so far. However we’re being warned that the next phase will be the most…

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Roundabout Now?

Graham Wright

Construction of a new roundabout in Ruddington is finally set to begin after being delayed almost six months by a failure to consult properly with affected properties. Originally work was due to start on the 26th of July last year at the Wilford Road/Clifton Road junction and should have been completed by the end of the school summer holidays. Following a four week consultation Nottinghamshire County Council rubber-stamped their new parking and waiting restrictions at a Highways meeting in October.  These include new double yellow lines in front of the Victoria Tavern Inn and adjacent houses on Wilford Road – and also the…

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