Dorchester Road temporary lights

From Tuesday 25 October there will be temporary traffic lights on Dorchester Road just to the south of Manor Roundabout.

The lights will be in place for around five days, although we hope to complete the works sooner.

Where possible, the traffic lights will be removed at the end of each shift.

There will be a signed advisory diversion route along Mercery Road during the works.

Work is being carried out to realign the kerbs from the side road to improve the turning movement for vehicles exiting the cul-de-sac and to complete the pedestrian island.

Landscaping works continue

With autumn now upon us the remaining batch of soft landscaping has begun in earnest.

The clearance and eradication of perennial weed growth is underway, preparing the ground for the final seeding and planting works.

The Bincombe junction area, Littlemoor Road and the Park & Ride are the main focus of works, consisting of amenity and agricultural grass seeding and native tree and shrub planting.

Canberra Crescent

The junction tie-in at Canberra Crescent is nearing completion.

Work on the road will be finished tomorrow, however for safety reasons the junction will not reopen to traffic until Saturday afternoon so that the footways can be completed.

Canberra Crescent update

The closure of Canberra Crescent is being extended to Friday 14 October.

Work has been progressing well this week, however a lot of services have been found in the area which has caused some delays.

The county council hopes that the work will be completed by the end of next week.

The closure is required for safe construction of the junction tie-in to the new Littlemoor Road.

Apologies for any inconvenience and disruption caused.

Canberra Crescent closure

The junction of Canberra Crescent and Littlemoor Road in Weymouth closed from yesterday morning (Monday 3 October 2011) to enable Dorset County Council to complete the junction tie-in to the new Littlemoor Road.

The county council hopes that the work will be completed this week so that the junction will be open for the weekend.

Littlemoor Road update

The works along Littlemoor Road have been progressing well. Works of this nature are always fiddly and complex as you have to maintain access and tie into the existing layout.

A substantial amount of kerbing and surfacing has been completed. In addition, drainage and ducting for electric supplies to lighting and signing has been put in.

Works still to be complete include:

• The link to Louviers Road (east), which is currently being carried out under temporary traffic lights
• The link to Canberra Crescent
• The remaining sections of footway/cycleway
• Tidying up the completed links to accesses and side roads

The works are due to be completed towards the middle of October, although there will be some remedial works to complete in the following months.

Bincombe junction bus services

After completion of the minor works to Bincombe junction, we have now had further discussions with the bus companies.

First Group have confirmed that from Monday 12 September their services will use Bincombe junction and they will monitor it over the coming months.

• Service 10 will use the old Dorchester Road and Bincombe junction
• Service 31 will use the old Dorchester Road and Bincombe junction in the evenings

For operational reasons, South West Coaches will not be using Bincombe junction.

• Service 210 will continue to use the Weymouth Relief Road

Wilts and Dorset have not yet come to a decision on whether Service 183 will use Bincombe junction.

The Dorchester Road shuttle service will finish on Saturday 10 September after the last timetabled service (7pm).

Subway artwork

Weymouth College art students have been busy creating a unique mural for the new relief road subway at Manor Roundabout.

Two murals, each 2.5m high and 24m long, have been designed and painted by 24 BTEC National Diploma Art & Design students.

Split into two teams of 12, each individual designed their own section of the mural within the theme the team had decided upon.

Engineers working on the relief road project have organised for the artwork to be installed.

3-way lights on Littlemoor Road

From the morning of Tuesday, 30 August there will be three-way temporary traffic lights at the junction of Littlemoor Road and Louviers Road, near to the Co-op.

The lights will be in place for around one week while the Louviers Road pedestrian island is constructed.

Upwey shuttle service

The Dorchester Road shuttle service will now finish on Saturday 10 September after the last timetabled service (7pm).

Work at Bincombe junction is progressing well and we hope that it will be complete at the end of this week.

Discussions with bus companies will take place once the works are complete.

We will provide an update on the bus services once further details are available.