Part of ring road shut for five days
WORK ON £950,000 CYCLE WAY
A FIVE-day closure of one of Leicester’s busiest roads is planned as part of work to complete a cycle lane.
Highways engineers will shut the inner ring road Tigers Way, between Welford Road and Regent Road, in both directions between 7am and 8pm from Monday.
Leicester City Council said diversions will be in place via Welford Road, University Road and Regent Road.
The temporary closure is to allow resurfacing work to be carried out as part of the Lancaster Road improvement scheme.
A £950,000 two-way cycle lane from the junction of Victoria Park Road and Queens Road, across Victoria Park, along the full length of Lancaster Road and on to Nelson Mandela Park is being created
The cycle track will link to the recently completed cycle lane in Welford Road.
As part of the work, significant improvements are being made to the crossing linking Lancaster Road to Nelson Mandela Park, where a parallel crossing for pedestrians and cyclists is being created.
The Lancaster Road improvement scheme will support the city’s recently published Covid-19 Transport
Recovery Plan, which sets out planned actions for the coming months to create space for social distancing and safe travelling throughout the city, ranging from pop-up cycling and walking schemes to bringing forward infrastructure projects.
It is backed by £950,000 of Government cash from the Transforming Cities Fund.