Drivers using the M5 motorway near Bradley Stoke are being advised to allow extra time for their journeys as bridge refurbishment works enter their final phase from today, Friday 26th April 2024. The closures will extend from J17 (Cribbs Causeway) to J14 (Falfield) and will therefore affect access to and from the motorway at J16 (Almondsbury / Aztec West).
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Drivers using the M5 near Bradley Stoke are being advised to allow extra time for their journeys as bridge refurbishment works enter their next phase from Monday 2nd October 2023. A week of overnight full closures of the M5, between junctions 14 and 17, is planned to allow the installation of a contraflow system.
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Motorists are being warned to expect months of contraflow on the M5 motorway near Bradley Stoke in connection with bridge repair works being carried out by National Highways. The work is planned to commence with a month of overnight road closures from Monday 31st July 2023. Contraflow traffic management will be introduced from October 2023 and last until “summer 2024”.
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The first phase of work to install additional traffic calming measures on Stoke Lane will now commence on Monday 22nd August with a road closure lasting for two weeks, South Gloucestershire Council has announced. Further work, involving overnight road closures for resurfacing, will be carried out later in September.
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South Gloucestershire Council has postponed a planned four-week closure of Stoke Lane that was due to start today (Monday 8th August). The road closure, which was announced barely a week ago, on Thursday 28th July, is needed to install additional traffic calming measures that include a new speed table and two new sets of speed cushions.
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An important route between Bradley Stoke and towns and villages to the north looks set to remain closed for another month after a bridge refurbishment project being carried out by Highways England encountered further unanticipated issues.
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Motorists in the Stokes are now able to see the benefits of a £2.9m scheme of improvements at Great Stoke (Rabbit) Roundabout after the final surfacing and road marking tasks were completed
in early September. The new toucan crossings are now expected to go live in October.
Road users in the Stokes have had to contend with numerous sets of roadworks and road closures during September and it seems there will be no let-up in October, with work continuing at Bowsland Way, Trench Lane, Great Stoke (Rabbit) Roundabout, Hatchet Road, Westfield Lane and the M4 motorway.
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Another major road resurfacing scheme is set to get under way in Bradley Stoke on Thursday (17th September), at Pear Tree Roundabout on Woodlands Lane (adjacent to the Toby Carvery). The work will be carried out overnight and is expected to take until Thursday 24th September.
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Road users in the Stokes have had to contend with multiple sets of roadworks and diversions across the area since the last week in July, leading some residents to joke that the council is imposing a summer ‘lock in’. This article from our September magazine has been updated with the latest projected completion dates for the schemes currently in progress.
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