By Jim Aitken, community liaison officer at Alun Griffiths Ltd. All Alun Griffiths works at Aztec West, Bradley Stoke Way north of Patchway Brook Roundabout (near Aldi) and around Webbs Wood Roundabout are complete. South Gloucestershire Council continues to work in the vicinity of Aztec West on the separate (i.e. non-MetroBus) A38 southbound widening and roundabout improvement scheme. South of Patchway Brook
Continue reading
Drivers attempting to leave Aztec West this evening faced delays of up to an hour due to badly configured traffic lights. Here are two photos showing some of the queue in Aztec West: I walked out of the business park and discovered that the huge queues were caused by the phasing of the traffic lights. Here’s the traffic on
Continue reading
Commuters in north Bristol are being warned to expect significant additional delays on roads throughout the area when South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) commences repairs to the Bromley Heath Viaduct in the final week of July. The A4174 Ring Road near Hambrook is to be reduced to 50 percent capacity (one lane each way instead of two) for an estimated 33
Continue reading
South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) has been dealt a further body blow to its finances with the news that construction of the North Fringe to Hengrove Package (NFHP) MetroBus scheme is now projected to come in nearly £16m over budget, an increase of £4.6m since the last figures were released in November 2016. The latest numbers, originating from the MetroBus Project
Continue reading
Over the last few weeks, South Gloucestershire Council’s traffic signals team have been installing new traffic signals infrastructure to replace the old equipment on the Aztec West Roundabout. It was anticipated that these works would be substantially completed and the new equipment turned on by the first week in July. The new left-turn MetroBus lane between Bradley Stoke Way and the
Continue reading
By Jim Aitken, community liaison officer at Alun Griffiths Ltd. Bradley Stoke Way (BSW) The Alun Griffiths compound at Woodlands Lane has now been cleared. Work on swales and landscaping is ongoing. A38 south of Aztec West The new MetroBus stops are now 100 percent complete and all traffic management for our works have been removed, however South Gloucestershire Council is
Continue reading
Motorists using the southern end of Bradley Stoke Way (BSW) could be faced with extra delays for the next two weeks after MetroBus contractors Alun Griffiths announced they will need to introduce 24-hour temporary traffic lights on the approach to Great Stoke Roundabout (a.k.a. Rabbit Roundabout). The company had previously given an assurance that temporary traffic lights, if needed at all in this
Continue reading
MetroBus construction work will still be going on within Bradley Stoke as late as August 2017, the Journal can reveal. The news follows a decision by MetroBus contractors Alun Griffiths to “re-sequence” its programme of work at the southern end of Bradley Stoke Way, where a new bus lane is being constructed on the southbound approach to Great Stoke Roundabout.
Continue reading
By Jim Aitken, community liaison officer at Alun Griffiths Ltd. Bradley Stoke Way (BSW) All carriageway surfacing is now complete, including road markings and anti-skid. Landscaping is now taking place along BSW to the verge and swale areas, forming the embankments’ profiles so they may receive turfing and planting – this is very weather dependent. It is our intention to
Continue reading
The budget for maintaining roads, cycleways and footways across South Gloucestershire looks set to be slashed by up to £1m per annum for the next eight years in order to pay for the projected overspend on MetroBus, the Journal can reveal. As previously reported, construction costs for the £102m North Fringe to Hengrove Package MetroBus route (the one which passes
Continue reading