Warning as part of busy road to close overnight
RESURFACING WILL SEE SOME RESTRICTIONS FOR FOUR NIGHTS
DRIVERS are being warned Leicester’s Welford Road will be subject to closures and lane restrictions to allow surfacing work to be carried out.
The closures will start today and are expected to last for four nights.
They will be in place from 7pm to 6am. Leicester City Council has said it will be carrying out “essential resurfacing work”.
A short stretch of the road by Nelson Mandela Park will have lane restrictions and partial closures in effect. The right turn from Aylestone Road onto Welford Road will be closed overnight to all traffic with a short, sign-posted diversion in place via Infirmary Close, Pelham Street and back on to Welford Road.
Overnight lane closures will also be in place on part of the outbound side of Welford Road, close to the junction with Aylestone Road.
The work is the latest phase of a £2 million improvement scheme to parts of Aylestone Road and Welford Road.
The scheme aims to create a safer and more attractive route for people walking, using wheelchairs or other mobility aids, or cycling on Aylestone Road, between Putney Road and Welford Road.
It will also provide a direct link with existing cycleways in the city centre and nearby neighbourhoods.
Councillor Adam Clarke, who leads on environment and transportation, said: “Aylestone Road was the first route to be identified and used as a pop-up ‘keyworker corridor’ to provide safe commuting routes for people during the first lockdown three years ago.
“It’s been a popular route for walkers, wheelers and cyclists ever since.
“The improvements to this route represent another important expansion of the city’s growing network of safe and attractive routes for cyclists and pedestrians and will allow us to further extend the multi-millionpound investment we have made in and around the city centre, out into the Leicester’s busy local neighbourhoods along Aylestone Road and Saffron Lane.
“It is vital we continue to invest in schemes that encourage people to make the shift to greener, cheaper and healthier forms of transport, not only to help address the climate emergency and reduce air pollution, but to support the future growth of the city and its economy.”
Work is being paid for through the Transforming Cities Fund following the city council’s successful bid for £32 million of second tranche funding.
Work on the whole route is expected to be complete by December 2023.