Traffic warning Alert ahead of works on key roundabout bridge

SIGNIFICANT delays are expected when work to refurbish and repair a key roundabout bridge in Bristol begins next month.

- Tristan CORK

But there is some good news for drivers as a nearby road will finally reopen at the same time.

Council contractors will start work on the Bath New Bridge - one of the two Bath Road Bridges next to Temple Meads station on July 14.

And at the same time, nearby York Road will reopen to drivers heading from Bath Road Bridge roundabout to Bedminster Bridge along the south bank of the River Avon.

Work to stabilise the south bank of the New Cut has seen York Road closed to through traffic either side of the turn off to Victoria Park and Totterdown since July last year.

Drivers going between Bedminster Bridge roundabout and Bath Road Bridge roundabout have had to divert onto the north bank of the river along Clarence Road, but there will be a major change to this arrangement starting in the middle of July.

From July 14 York Road will be reopened to drivers head west from Temple Meads and the Bath Road Bridge roundabout towards Bedminster and Ashton.