Final diversions as £56 million inner ring project takes shape

The first alteration takes place over the August bank holiday weekend, when a section of carriageway between Shalesmoor and Corporation Street is fully opened.

Traffic heading into the city will no longer be able to turn into Gibraltar Street but must continue to a traffic light-controlled roundabout on Corporation Street, where vehicles can take a right for West Bar.

The one-way system involving Pitsmoor Road and Chatham Street at the junction next to the Riverside pub will be reversed, so Pitsmoor Road is used by downhill traffic while vehicles heading uphill use Chatham Street.

From Sunday September 2, a brand new stretch of road will be opened in both directions between the end of Corporation Street and the Riverside pub, across the Wicker, joining up with Cutler's Gate.

City-bound traffic from Savile Street and Spital Hill will no longer pass under the Wicker Arches unless turning left towards Park Square - and will be diverted beneath the new rail bridge at the end of the Wicker viaduct to a traffic light-controlled junction, where vehicles will join the main inner ring road.

Buses - which will continue to use their current route along the Wicker once work is completed, crossing the inner ring road at a bus gate - will be temporarily be diverted via the new road if they are heading out of town.

The route of inbound services will be unchanged.

Separate works are taking place at Park Square providing an extra lane for increased traffic heading onto the Parkway to access the new section of inner ring road.

Once it opens fully, through traffic will no longer be able to use Castlegate and Bridge Street, which is to become a bus gate, so must turn onto the Parkway to the top of Victoria Quays, then left into Cutler's Gate to access the new road towards Shalesmoor and West Bar.

The new lane at Park Square will be created by removing a slip road which currently allows traffic on Exchange Street - part of the existing inner ring road - to access the Parkway bypassing the roundabout.

The slip road is due to close on August 20.