Motorists are being warned of delays when temporary traffic lights and a road closure are put in place in Hints.
The roadworks are part of the HS2 project and will take place along Watling Street.
Temporary traffic lights will be in place from 3rd to 28th April, with the speed limit also being reduced to 30mph.
The second phase of the work will see a full closure of the road from 8pm on 28th April to 5am on 2nd May.
A spokesperson for contractor Balfour Beatty VINCI said:
“We will be commencing the construction of Watling Street overbridge that will allow HS2 to pass under Watling Street.
“To minimise the impact on road users we will build a temporary diversion on land next to Watling Street. Once completed we will divert traffic onto the new temporary road which will minimise future disruption and closures of Watling Street.”
Balfour Beatty VINCI spokesperson
Full details of the closure can be downloaded below:
Is there any part of this area that is not going to be disrupted by HS2? If it ever gets finished, we ought to get free tickets for what we’ve had to put up with.
I was lead to understand that the HS2 north of Birmingham was being halted for 2 years, so why are they still carving up the countryside?
I thought (according to previous reports) that HS2 sites had given up and not returning until August 2025. Michael Fabricant was going to come back to us, with answers to enquiries he was making.
I understand that work north of Birmingham up to the end of Phase 1 of HS2 where the line will join the west coast mainline at Handsacre probably will continue as the cost of making good all the works – especially around the A38 – would be prohibitive. I am now awaiting the sign off between the Treasury and the Department for Transport. Once/if it becomes official, I will let everyone know.
Fabricant has made do many contradictory ststeon this he should be brought to book a complete waste of space as for Pincher what are we paying him gor its scandal
Hand the wastelands over to various wildlife trusts, RSPB and/or similar organisations. These people have highly-skilled professionals who can provide benefits for all.
Whatever we do, we must not fall victim to the sunk-cost fallacy.
Also, let us adopt a different mindset: improve regional rail. Extend trams/metros to improve the quality of life throughout the country and boost productivity nationwide.
If you think there’s a lot of disruption you haven’t seen anything yet. HS2 will need to cross the A51, where the racecourse grandstand building used to be. It will then pass overhead across Lichfield Road Whittington, near Marsh Lane where the trees have been removed. It will then carve a cutting through the fields and pass under Darnford Lane, which will necessitate remodelling or Darnford Lane and the removal of a number of mature oak trees. Cappers Lane will e completely remodelled into a flyover to allow HS2 to pass underneath. The work will be visually intrusive and will make the recent road closures appear insignificant.
Oh for goodness sake just scrap the damn thing. We are clearly incapable of building something like this in this country. We are so far behind other countries it’s laughable. They have a 200mph high speed line in Morocco, up and running. Japan has started putting in a maglev system that enables speeds of 300mph (remember maglev- we had this at Birmingham Airport many years ago but could never get it to work properly?). It would be far more sensible to improve/expand/supplement our existing system. Having it back under public control would help too.