Long Delays Expected On Reading Roads
25 July 2011, 06:00
Drivers are being warned of long delays as Reading Borough Council's summer resurfacing programme starts.
The £850,000 improvements are expected to last about 8 weeks.
Oxford Road is included in this year's programme and parts of it will be closed at certain times.
From the 1st to the 5th of August the road between Grovelands Road and Beresford Road will shut.
While the weekend of the 30th and 31st of July the carriageway between Norcot Road and Grovelands Road and between Western Elms and Beresford Road will shut.
Diversions will change according to which part of the road is being worked on.
There'll also be road closures on other routes where roads are too narrow for trucks to pass each other safely.
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Tony Page, Lead Councillor for Regeneration, Planning and Transport at the council said:
"This work is a significant investment by the council in improving surfaces for all road users. Unfortunately consecutive cold winters have had a detrimental effect on surfaces and, as recent press articles have highlighted, there are significant works required to provide safe surface, along the Oxford Road in particular."
The full list of roads scheduled for resurfacing are as follows:
Caversham Road (Sections from Richfield Avenue to Vastern Road)
Oxford Road (Sections from Salisbury Road to Norcot Road)
Elgar Road South (Sections from Waterloo Road to Basingstoke Road)
Kidmore End Road (sections from Peppard Road to Brooklyn Drive)
Forbury Road (Eastbound Carriageway - Forbury Roundabout to Kenavon Drive)
London Street (Sections)
Shinfield Road (Sections from approximately Cressingham Road to Wellington Avenue)
Southampton Street (Sections from Whitley Street to IDR)
Rose Kiln Lane (Sections from Basingstoke Road to Brunel Retail Park)
Westfield Road (Sections)
Caversham Road / Vastern Road Roundabout (Sections)
Whitley Wood Lane (Sections from Whitley Wood Road to B3270)
Berkeley Avenue (Sections from A33 to Coley Avenue)
Great Knollys Street (IDR to Road Restriction)
Tilehurst Road / Meadway (from Liebenrood Road to Honey End Lane)
Park Lane (City Road to Mayfair)
Bath Road (Sections of inbound bus lane from Benyon Court to Janson Court)