Grantham Station Approach October update

The latest update on the Grantham Station Approach.

What we achieved in September

• Installed Metro traffic management system
• Installed new traffic signal ducting to the new traffic signal locations
• Installed new tactile paving and kerbing to the large traffic island
• Installed new tactile paving on the Westgate/Wharf Road footway
• Removed, replaced and reset ironworks
• Laid concrete to the raised areas of the island
• Trimmed sub-base and installed new binder course to the pedestrian routes through the island and to the maintenance vehicle area
• Trimmed back the vegetation overhanging Sankt Augustin Way to improve the pedestrian walkway
• Refreshed the yellow box lining on Harlaxton Road by Old Wharf Road
• Installed new bollards
• Removed the pedestrian guard railing from footway and replaced the voids with new paving

What’s happening in October

Phase 2 – Wharf Road/Station Road traffic island and Station Road footway

• Remove pedestrian guardrail and sign posts
• Remove existing paving from footway
• Remove existing bituminous material, tactiles, edgings and kerbs from island
• Install traffic signal ducting
• Install kerbs, edgings and tactile paving to island and footway
• Install sockets for new signal posts
• Trim sub-base
• Remove, replace and reset iron works
• Lay new binder
• Install concrete to raised areas of island
• Install sign posts and bollards

Phase 3 – Harlaxton Road/Sankt Augustin Way traffic island 

• Remove pedestrian guard rail and signposts

• Remove existing paving from footway
• Remove existing bituminous material, tactiles, edgings and kerbs from island
• Install traffic signal ducting
• Install sockets for new signal and sign posts

Current/ongoing traffic restrictions and closures

• Friday 27 September until mid-October – full closure of Station Road West from the private car park south of the residential dwellings to the junction
  • Access to premises will be maintained
  • There will be no access to Grantham Railway Station from Westgate or Wharf Road
  • Temporary traffic signals being introduced at Old Wharf Road, in conjunction with traffic signals being slightly re-located prior to the bridge at Harlaxton Road to ease congestion under the bridge
  • Diversion route via Wharf Road / London Road / Station Road East, and vice versa

Upcoming traffic restrictions and closures

• Mid-October to mid-November – closure of slip road off Harlaxton Road to Sankt Augustin Way
  • Traffic from Harlaxton Road will be diverted around the island to Sankt Augustin Way (access to Wharf Road from Harlaxton Road via gyratory and slip road from Westgate)

For more information about this and other major highways projects, visit www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/majorprojects.