TEMPORARY closures and two-way traffic lights will take place along a busy Bournemouth road for the next four months.
BCP Council will bring in the measures to Glenferness Avenue, leading to Bournemouth town centre, to build more cycle lanes.
The installation of the new cycle lanes on both sides of the road will take place from Talbot Roundabout to Alford Road.
However, while this work is being done, Alford Road, between Glenferness Avenue and Huntly Road, will be closed from Monday, February 19 to accommodate a fenced work compound for the works.
Access will be maintained for pedestrians and cyclists, a spokesman for the council added.
Meanwhile, traffic management will be in place along Glenferness Avenue from Thursday, February 22 and is expected to last for up to four months.
An exact date is not known yet, but it could last until June 21, according to roadworks website one.network.
For part of the time, the road’s width will be narrowed to accommodate the work, but retaining two-way traffic flow.
“Short periods” of two-way temporary traffic signals, closures of sideroad junctions and Glenferness Avenue will take place for the duration.
However, the council is not yet sure when these periods will take place and for what length of time.
It’s also expected there will be a new parallel crossing, resurfacing work, drainage alternations, the removal of traffic islands and street lighting improvements.
Parallel crossings have a cycling crossing area parallel to the zebra crossing area for pedestrians.
Glenferness Avenue only reopened last December after months of being closed at the bridge while the council fitted two new bridge cycle and footpath lanes.
Two four-metre-wide, 31-metre-long prefabricated bridges were installed in the autumn as part of plans to improve cycling and pedestrian access.
Engineers spent 27 hours over an October weekend to install bridges across the railway line above Glenferness Avenue alongside the existing bridge.
With funding from south east Dorset’s Transforming Cities Fund, the work is part of the “sustainable travel route” linking Bournemouth town centre and Ferndown.
Marc Griffin, TCF programme manager for south east Dorset’s Transforming Cities Fund programme, said: “We are committed to our original ambition of creating a fully connected network of sustainable travel routes across south east Dorset and are actively working to secure additional funding to facilitate this."
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