Ringroad updates December 2006
December 2006 - major construction works set to begin
Major construction works – including preparatory work to strengthen and improve a key canal bridge – begin in January. Norwest Holst contractors have worked with Walsall Council officers to specifically schedule the works after Christmas and New Year so that traders in the town can gain maximum benefit during the festive season.
Work begins to prepare for replacing a bridge deck and carrying out major road improvements at Wolverhampton Road/Pleck Road – requiring traffic management through the junction from Monday 8 January 2007. Major works will also start along Pleck Road and to allow this to happen safely with minimum inconvenience to road users, a northbound one-way system will be introduced on Sunday 7 January 2007.
Traffic will circulate clockwise: Northbound only on Pleck Road, between Rollingmill Street and Bridgeman Street, east on Bridgeman Street; south on Queen Street and west on Rollingmill Street. Ida Road will be restricted to one-way running – westbound between Pleck Road and Scarborough Road. One-way restrictions are necessary to allow underground services – such as gas and water – to be moved without the inconvenience and major congestion that lots of small constantly changing works would cause.
Other works will be necessary around the northern ring road to re-route services, but wherever possible these will take place at off-peak times and be combined to reduce disruption. Work also begins in January 2007 to prepare the Arboretum junction for its new layout as a more efficient, five-way junction at this site.
Contact us
Engineering and Transportation Services
2nd Floor, Civic Centre
Darwall Street
Walsall
WS1 1DG
Email ringroad@walsall.gov.uk
Telephone 01922 471969