The final set of aerial images of the junction improvements are now available on our Flickr account.

The image above is looking at Westham Crossroads towards Kings Crossroads, Jubilee Retail Park junction and King Street.

Work is continuing to equip bus stops in the borough with real time information displays.

We are monitoring the network and will make alterations where necessary to ensure the system is working as efficiently as possible.

Following the completion on the junction works, this blog will no longer be updated.

All questions and enquiries can still be directed to the project team:

Phone: 01305 224754

Email: weymouthtransportpackage@dorsetcc.gov.uk

We appreciate that there have been some difficulties for traffic exiting Rodwell Avenue due to the junction being blocked by vehicles.

This week our traffic signal engineers have carried out some changes to the phasing of the Rodwell Road/Avenue junction to improve traffic flow for vehicles exiting Rodwell Avenue.

Since the changes have been made exiting Rodwell Avenue has improved.

The phasing of the signals has changed so that when there is congestion on Rodwell Road, northbound traffic will be held at Rodwell Road/Avenue junction while southbound traffic is still moving. This will help to clear some of the congestion between Wyke Road and Rodwell Road before traffic from Rodwell Avenue can exit the junction.

We will continue to keep a close eye on the network and make improvements where necessary to ensure the system is working as efficiently as possible.

Work to install detection equipment at the entrance and exit of Weymouth car parks is complete.

Real time information is now being displayed to tell drivers where the available parking spaces are in the following car parks: Swannery, Park Street, Melcombe Regis, Harbourside, the multi-storey, Cosens Quay, and the park & ride.

Car park guidance signs are located on:

• Granby Way
• Swannery Bridge
• King Street
• A354 Weymouth Relief Road
• Commercial Road

There are also variable message signs in place that can be used to advise motorists to use the park & ride when the car parks in Weymouth town centre are full.

Since the King Street signals were switched on it has not been working as efficiently as it could do to clear congestion. This is because we could not introduce the SCOOT system, which is the element that links the junctions, when the signals were first switched on.

The SCOOT system will be in place by the end of this week so that next week we can start to manage traffic flows along the corridor and reduce some of the congestion that has been forming there.

We will continue to keep a close eye on the network and make improvements where necessary to ensure the system is working as efficiently as possible.

Now that construction works are complete for the Weymouth Transport Package we are reinstating the area that was used for the site compound.

This week work will be taking place to resurface some areas of the car park.

• Monday 1 August, 4pm to midnight – access into the car park will not be restricted for these works
• Thursday 4 August, from about 9pm – there will be times where access to the car park is restricted to enable the final surfacing to be completed

Re-lining of the car park will be starting on Tuesday 2 August.

Next week the area around the King’s Statue will be resurfaced, and signal the end of the bus stop improvement work in the area.

Surfacing of this area is being carried out overnight on:

• Sunday 31 July, 4pm to 1am
• Tuesday 2 August, 6.30pm to 1am
• Wednesday 3 August, 6.30pm to 1am
• Thursday 4 August, 6.30pm to 1am (work should be completed earlier than 1am)

Night work will not be carried out on Monday 1 August due to the evening events in the borough.

During these working hours Stop/Go boards will be in operation to manage traffic.

It will not be possible for buses and taxis to stop within the working area during these hours. Bus services will use the park & ride stop at Marks & Spencer during these works.   

Access to The Esplanade from Westham Road will be maintained during most of the work. There will be short periods of time when access is not possible while work is being carried out across the junction – this work will be completed later in the evening to minimise disruption to traffic. 

We apologise for the inconvenience and disruption this will cause.

The work, which started in March, included:

• Providing seven new, modern shelters
• Installing raised kerbs
• Improving the pedestrian crossing
• Widening the footpath
• Re-organising the bus stops

The real time information displays at the bus stops will be fitted in August, when the Weymouth and Portland real time system is up and running, and rolled out throughout the borough.

The last junction improved as part of the Weymouth Transport Package will be switched on during the afternoon of Tuesday, 26 July.

The Jubilee Retail Park entrance/exit, Radipole Park Drive and Swannery Car Park have had their kerbs realigned and signals installed.

This junction will feed into Kings Crossroads and improve the access into and out of the retail park.

Over the next week, work will continue to:

• complete the remaining footpath and remedial works
• install additional signage and bollards
• carry out inspections and snagging
• install fencing
• reinstate the Swannery car park.

King Street will reopen to two-way traffic during Thursday 21 July.

Thank you for your patience during the one-way closure.

On Wednesday 20 July, the new signals at the junction of Queen Street with King Street will be switched on.

The Esplanade signalised junction will also be switched on during Wednesday 20 July.

The Jubilee Retail Park junction will be switched on next week.

With these new junctions open the following movements can no longer be made by vehicles:

• Turning right from King Street onto The Esplanade; drivers wanting to reach the ferry terminal and pavilion from the A354 are signed down Dorchester Road, drivers from other directions should use Commercial Road-Westham Road
• Turning left into Queen Street; drivers wanting to access the Park District will need to enter the area from The Esplanade via Astrid Way, Lennox Street or William Street
• Turning left out of Queen Street; drivers leaving the Park District and wanting to head east can either access The Esplanade via Astrid Way, Lennox Street or William Street, by using King Street-Commercial Road-Westham Road or by using King Street-Weymouth Way-A354-Littlemoor Road

• The Esplanade, to clean out drainage – two-way traffic lights in place on Tuesday 19 July, 9.30am to 4pm
• Westham Crossroads, to complete work on vehicle detection equipment – local traffic management
• Jubilee Close, to complete work on vehicle detection equipment – local traffic management
• Abbotsbury Road, to complete signage – local traffic management
• North Quay, to complete work on vehicle detection equipment – local traffic management
• Work to complete top soiling on all junctions – local traffic management