Work is set to start on the second of five major road improvement schemes planned for Hindpool, Barrow.
The major new £1.1m road scheme, involving road widening, a new traffic signalled junction and access road into Tesco is expected to get underway on 29th August.
The demolition of a number of buildings on North Road has already taken place. The new access road will take pressure off the John Whinnerah roundabout and cut journey times for Walney and Barrow Island residents visiting Tesco.
The scheme, which is expected to take around ten weeks to complete, is being carried out by Cumbria County Council, through Cumbria Highways, under a legal agreement with Tesco Stores Limited who are funding the project.
Details of the work to be carried out as part of the scheme include:
* Installing a new set of 4 way traffic signals on North Road including the provision of 3 new pedestrian refuges
* Constructing a new access road into Tesco’s Car Park with a junction off this road serving Brady’s Warehouse
* Renewing the existing DDH traffic signals and linking these to the new 4 way signals
* Carriageway widening on both sides of North Road
* Carriageway resurfacing on North Road
* New footway construction on North Road and on one side of the New Access Road
* Accommodation works on the Dock Museum frontage including repositioning a boundary wall and reinstating cobbles, block paving and landscaped areas to suit new footway levels
* New cycle lanes on North Road
* New street lighting, traffic signs and road markings
* Service diversions
* Closing the South Western end of Old North Road to vehicular traffic including removing the existing one way order and providing a turning head
The County Council has said it will try to minimise traffic disruption as much as possible.