Highways to spend £900,000 on A49 roadworks

The junction at the southern end of Edgar Street is due to be upgraded The junction at the southern end of Edgar Street is due to be upgraded

THREE of the biggest road junctions in Hereford are set for a £900,000 upgrade.

Highways Agency bosses confirmed this week that major works will take place at the Belmont roundabout, the Starting Gate roundabout in Holmer and the ring road junction at the southern end of Edgar Street.

It will start will Belmont next year and should be finished by 2014.

The government agency says work on all three sites will support both Hereford’s multi-million pound Old Market retail development and the Rotherwas Enterprise Zone.

In Worcestershire, Highways Agency will spend £11.3 million on widening and realigning a roundabout on junction four of the M5 motorway in Bromsgrove.

  • See this week's Hereford Times for more information.

Comments(4)

mrdando says...
9:58am Fri 19 Oct 12

it says Belmont roundabout is that the one by tesco or asda if it asda one it should be redbrook roundabout

ArmadilloSackRace says...
10:36am Fri 19 Oct 12

I imagine it's the one by Asda that people tend to refer to as 'Belmont roundabout'. I wasn't aware that it was called 'Redbrook roundabout' so thanks for educating me, mrdando.

sickofrain says...
11:13am Fri 19 Oct 12

Deep joy, I guess this means yet more traffic delays when going into Hereford!

RogerLFC says...
12:04pm Fri 19 Oct 12

'Highways Agency bosses confirmed this week' ~ The press release is dated 08th October. http://www.highways.
gov.uk/news/press-re
leases/170m-road-boo
st-for-local-economi
es/ This is just another web item from the HT which is dressed up as 'current' news when it's nearly two weeks old.

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