Subsequent section of Shrewsbury station space enhancements to start on 27 March

The subsequent section of labor to reinforce and enhance the Shrewsbury railway station gyratory space will start on 27 March. This subsequent stage of the work will final round six weeks and require the momentary closure of Cross Avenue between its junctions with Coton Hill and Citadel Foregate.

Click here to see a map of the closure and diversion route.

Work will start as soon as the present work on the Chester Avenue/Smithfield Highway junction is accomplished – with this work enabling Chester Avenue to change into two-way from the underside of Coton Hill to Smithfield Highway.

The closure of Cross Avenue is required in order that the present footway will be repaved, and a brand new footway constructed on the southern aspect of the highway, beneath the railway tunnel. It should additionally guarantee the protection of the travelling public and the workforce, who would in any other case be working in an enclosed space and in shut proximity to dwell visitors and to exhaust fumes.

By closing the highway, the contractor also can focus consideration on delivering this section as rapidly as attainable, thereby mitigating, partly, the impression on the gyratory and the broader space.

Throughout the closure a signed diversion will likely be in place and momentary visitors lights will likely be used to handle visitors on the Citadel Foregate/Smithfield Highway/Citadel Gates junction.

Visitors from Ellesmere Highway will be capable of journey to Smithfield Highway to show left or proper, with out the necessity to drive instantly previous the Railway Station. Visitors heading southbound from St Michaels Avenue will nonetheless be capable of drive previous the Railway Station to entry Citadel Gates or Smithfield Highway.

Northbound visitors (from Smithfield Highway) that may ordinarily have turned left or proper on to Citadel Foregate on the finish of Cross Avenue, ought to comply with the diversion indicators that will likely be in place.

Additional data will likely be introduced shortly about vehicular entry to the railway station through the closure interval.

Throughout this subsequent section of labor congestion is the realm is probably going. The location workforce and Shropshire Council will routinely monitor the impression of the work – which is a key element of the general venture – and take into account/motion mitigations the place acceptable.

Shropshire Council thanks individuals for his or her persistence and understanding while work is being carried out. Each effort will likely be made to finish the works promptly, and highway customers are requested to make use of different routes or modes of journey – or keep away from the realm  – if in any respect attainable.

The council may even proceed to actively monitor and assess different deliberate work in Shrewsbury to maintain principal routes free from any additional visitors lights or highway closures if attainable.

The ‘station quarter’ work – being carried out by native firm McPhillips Ltd on behalf of Shropshire Council – is Authorities funded and is about to be accomplished by summer time 2025.