Meole Brace roundabout: Five weeks of closures begin
Work was today starting to allow the next phase in the redevelopment of the Meole Brace roundabout to get under way.
Motorists are being urged to use alternative routes as the next stage of work on Meole Brace roundabout in Shrewsbury begins. A section of the roundabout has been closed, with diversions put in place to allow contractors to start building the new cut-through road in the designs.
It is part of the £12 million Shrewsbury Integrated Transport Package, which will see work carried out over the next 11 months to improve four major junctions around the 'inner bypass', at Meole Brace roundabout, English Bridge Gyratory, Reabrook roundabout and Longden Coleham.
Simon Jones, Shropshire Council's cabinet member for highways and transport, said: "The work on the Meole Brace Roundabout is the first, important, part of the Shrewsbury Integrated Transport Package (SITP), which has been designed to improve the transport system in Shrewsbury, and enhance the town centre.
"The work at Meole will ensure the roundabout continues to function after the vast development along Oteley Road is complete, and with the predicted additional users of the route. We appreciate that this next phase of work will cause disruption and inconvenience but we ask people for their patience while this important work is carried out, and we encourage drivers to use an alternative route whenever possible."
The closure will affect the section of roundabout at the junction with Hereford Road, meaning motorists will have to exit on to Hereford Road itself and continue to the retail park roundabout before turning back on themselves to complete a circuit of Meole Brace roundabout.
The section of roundabout will be closed from 10pm on a Sunday night to 4pm on a Friday between February 12 and March 24.
