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Photo of a temporary ramp on a diversion route for pedestrians.

Wednesday 1st January 2020 SH (Editor)

Roundabout roadworks to start in early January

Motorists in the Stokes are being warned to expect delays at a major roundabout on the local road network in the new year. Improvement works at Great Stoke Roundabout (a.k.a. Rabbit Roundabout), on the border between Bradley Stoke and Stoke Gifford, are due to start on Thursday 2nd January and are expected to take 12 months to complete. The £2.9

Photo of Great Stoke Roundabout (a.k.a Rabbit Roundabout).

Tuesday 19th November 2019 SH (Editor)

Great Stoke Roundabout improvement works to run concurrently with Gipsy Patch Lane closure

Commuters in the Stokes look set to be once again heading for a double dose of roadworks-induced misery after South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) announced that it is to begin work on a £2.9 million scheme of improvements to Great Stoke Roundabout (a.k.a. Rabbit Roundabout) in January next year. The timing of the work, which will take 12 months to

Photo of two road signs on the A38 nortbound between Aztec West and M5 J16.

Thursday 18th October 2018 SH (Editor)

Council explains reasons for lane changes on A38

Motorists using the A38 northbound between the Aztec West Roundabout and M5 J16 will have noted further changes to the road layout in recent months. The latest alterations were implemented in June 2018, eight months after a £4.2m scheme of “improvements” on the southbound side of the A38 and on the arms of the Aztec West Roundabout itself was deemed

Aztec West Business Park, Almondsbury, Bristol

Thursday 26th April 2018 SH (Editor)

SGC considers “mitigation measures” to fix Aztec West traffic woes created by its own £4m scheme

South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) has revealed that it is considering a range of “mitigation measures” to address the widely held view that a recent £4.2m scheme of “improvements” on the southbound A38 near Aztec West has worsened peak time traffic congestion for the majority of road users in the area. The latest development came just days after one local councillor

Photo of traffic signals at a pedestrian crossing over the exit slip road from the Aztec West Business Park.

Friday 23rd March 2018 SH (Editor)

Metro mayor called on to help sort out Aztec West traffic shambles

A local councillor has called on the West of England Metro Mayor to step in and sort out traffic congestion around the Aztec West Roundabout, which is widely considered to have worsened significantly for the majority of road users since South Gloucestershire Council spent £4.5m on a road improvement scheme that took 18 months to implement. Speaking at a Bradley

Aerial view of repair work being carried out at the Bromley Heath Viaduct.

Sunday 18th March 2018 SH (Editor)

Ring Road contraflow extended by seven weeks

The highly disruptive contraflow system on the A4174 Ring Road at Bromley Heath which was due to be lifted by 12th March after being in place for 33 weeks will now not be removed until the last weekend in April (seven weeks later than originally planned). Announcing the news on 5th February, just five weeks before the restrictions were due

Photo of a road sign informing of a road closure on Woodlands Lane.

Sunday 18th February 2018 SH (Editor)

Woodlands Lane closed to through traffic from Monday for Wessex Water roadworks

Peak-time traffic congestion of a severity last seen during the notorious MetroBus roadworks of 2015/17 could return to Bradley Stoke for a few days in the coming week. Wessex Water says it will be closing Woodlands Lane to through traffic for up to three days from Monday (19th February) in order to repair a defect in its network near the junction with

Saturday 17th February 2018 SH (Editor)

Aztec West and A38 road improvement scheme branded a “complete failure”

The recently completed £4.5 million project to reduce congestion and install pedestrian crossing points at the Aztec West Roundabout has been branded a “complete failure” by one motorist who says the new road layout has added half-an-hour to the time it takes him to exit the Aztec West Business Park each evening. In an email to the Journal, the commuter,

Photo of no left-turn signage at the Hambrook lights.

Saturday 13th January 2018 SH (Editor)

Council’s astonishing U-turn over left-turn ban

Commuters who travel between Bradley Stoke and destinations in East Bristol have welcomed an astonishing council U-turn on a hugely unpopular ‘no left-turn’ restriction at the Hambrook lights, which they claimed was adding upwards of ten minutes to their journey times. The restriction, which applied to traffic approaching the lights on the B4058 Bristol Road from Winterbourne, had been introduced

Photo of covered-up road sign at the junction of the new Stoke Gifford By-Pass with the A4174 Ring Road near UWE.

Tuesday 5th December 2017 SH (Editor)

MetroBus construction report for November

An update compiled by the Journal with the assistance of the West of England Councils’ MetroBus team. Bradley Stoke Way All new bus lanes are complete and traffic management has been removed. Landscaping continues, along with remedial work by Alun Griffiths (Contractors) Ltd to fix minor defects. All work near Great Stoke Roundabout is complete, except for the connection of electrical