Maid Marian Way improvements ‘could have gone further’

TRENTBARTON says the city council has missed a key opportunity in its major transformation of Nottingham’s Maid Marian Way.

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The bus firm says it has seen “significant drops” in customer numbers due to the works on the key Nottingham route and that the council “could have gone further” with some of the upgrades.

Work began in spring 2024 to turn the now-demolished large roundabout on Maid Marian Way, which connected the key city centre routes of Derby Road and Lower Parliament Street in Nottingham city centre, into a T-junction. The work caused chaos at points due to severe delays, with the city council being forced to apologise in October 2024.

The last phase is currently under way, but Trentbarton’s managing director says the changes could have been more radical. Tom Morgan said: “We have to accept that in order for things to get better, there has to be disruption at certain times.