South Gloucestershire Council’s (SGC’s) highways department has been accused of responding inadequately to reports of recurring issues with the new traffic lights at the Aztec West Roundabout in the days before a major fault caused gridlock throughout Bradley Stoke during the morning rush hour on Monday 16th October. The latest incident follows two earlier ones associated with the same system
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An update compiled by the Journal with the assistance of the West of England Councils’ MetroBus team. South of Patchway Brook The new northbound bus lane was fully opened during the second week of October, following the completion of the final piece of work to install a pollution control chamber in the verge, close to Primrose Bridge. Traffic cones remain along
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Following on from the two major gridlock incidents in August and September, a number of Journal readers have asked why vehicles leaving the Aztec West Business Park and heading north on the slip road to the A38 are held by red signals at the new pedestrian crossing, when nobody is crossing and there is no traffic leaving the roundabout on the northbound
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By Jim Aitken, community liaison officer at Alun Griffiths Ltd. South of Patchway Brook Traffic management has now been removed, with the exception of one final section near Primrose Bridge, which has been left in place so that a pollution control chamber can be installed. We await the design solution to install this equipment as the underground utilities that are there
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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