Posted on Friday 30th June 2023
An £800,000 scheme to resurface a busy junction, install new traffic lights and upgrade pedestrian crossings is due to start in Lichfield on Monday July 3.
Staffordshire County Council’s highways teams will be carrying out the work at Eastern Avenue and Grange Lane in the city, with the work expected to take around nine weeks to complete.
The scheme will include the resurfacing of Eastern Avenue from the junction of the A51 Stafford Road, the installation of new traffic lights at the junction, and the upgrading of an existing puffin crossing on Eastern Avenue to a toucan crossing that will allow bicycles to cross at the same time as pedestrians. A new puffin crossing will also be installed across Grange Lane.
Works will be carried out during the school holidays to help minimise disruption, with some happening overnight so they can be carried out safely under a full road closure. A diversion will be in place when the road is closed.
Funding for the scheme was secured from the HS2 road safety fund and a recently successful Department for Transport grant. This major work is in addition to the £30 million investment in road repairs the county council has made over the next two years.
Robert Pritchard, Cabinet Support Member for Highways and Transport at Staffordshire County Council said:
This scheme is just one of many we are carrying out to improve journeys across Staffordshire and is in addition to the investment we have already made in Staffordshire’s roads over the next two years.
It’s an important safety scheme for the area, that will also help to improve the experience of pedestrians and cyclists too, especially around the local school.
Our crews will be working hard over the next few weeks, and we have timed these works to cause the least amount of disruption. The bulk of the work will be carried out during the school holidays when traffic is quieter, which will also help to minimise any inconvenience. I’d like to thank people in advance for bearing with us through the duration of these works.”