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A1073 bypass: Roadworks will stop area being a rat-run
Major roadworks lasting six months should be enough to deter motorists from using residential streets as rat-runs.
Major roadworks lasting six months should be enough to deter motorists from using residential streets as rat-runs.There were fears that the completion of the 80 million A1073 bypass scheme providing better links between Spalding and Eye would lead to a large increase in traffic entering the city through Dogsthorpe.
The new carriageway will eventually join the A47 close to its Welland Road junction, and there was concern that city centre-bound drivers would then use Dogsthorpe Road and Park Road to continue their journeys rather than the parkways.
To counter this, major traffic calming measures will be introduced along Welland Road – starting later this year.
The scheme, set to begin in September, is being funded by the Department of Transport, as well as Peterborough City Council and Lincolnshire County Council, which are joint funders of the bypass.
A total of nine speed cushions – a split speed hump to allow emergency vehicles and busses to straddle the bump and get easy access, but still slow cars down – will be installed along the road.
There will be raised zebra crossings placed outside the Spar shop near Lavender Crescent, near the Tesco and Birchtree Avenue and near the junction with Bluebell Avenue.
A raised junction will also be installed near the playing fields.
Today, councillor Bella Saltmarsh, who represents the Dogsthorpe ward, said the scheme would be a welcome boost to the area.
She said: "It is very important for people in the ward that this scheme goes ahead.
"There is a pensioners' complex nearby, and residents there needed a safe way to cross the road to get to the post office.
"There was also a dangerous section of road near the Tesco, and the new crossing will make it much safer.
"We were also very concerned about it becoming a rat-run, and hopefully this will stop that happening.
"While the works will cause disruption while they are taking place, this is a good thing for Dogsthorpe."
A Peterborough City Council spokesman said: "The city council is working with Lincolnshire County Council to improve the A1073 route between Spalding and Peterborough, which is due to be completed in 2010.
"However, the new road cannot be opened to traffic until a planning condition requiring traffic calming on Welland Road, helping deter traffic from entering the city centre via Welland Road and Dogsthorpe Road, has been satisfied."
The traffic calming plans can be viewed at www.peterborough.gov.uk/ page-15603
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