The 拢10.5m contract involves construction of 1.6km of carriageway and two new road bridges to relieve town centre traffic.
Overall project cost to client Somerset County Council is 拢21m, with grant funding from the Department for Transport and contributions from developers on the line of the new road.
Completion is scheduled for March 2015.
The scheme involves:
- Construction of a new bridge over the River Tone and the canal in the vicinity of Priory Fields business park
- Replacement of the former rail bridge over Station Road to the north of Whitehall
- Replacement of existing foot bridge over the railway at Chip Lane
- Construction of approximately 1.6km of new carriageway together with the realignment of a further 150m of carriageway
- Construction of a new junction at the Chip Lane / Staplegrove Road junction
- Improvements to the existing Priory Bridge Road / Priory Avenue / Priory Park junction
- The provision of pedestrian and cycle facilities.
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