- Heatwave warning
- £1million for more borough playgrounds
- Record numbers for youth services
- New children's centre for Hampton
- New task group helps parents participate in their children’s education
- Emergency support for carers
- People needed to help disabled children take part in activities
- Greycourt School pupil designs Council’s new youth web pages
- Homecare standards at new high
- Heathrow meeting call to new transport secretary
- Council makes cycling even easier
- Making more allotments available
- Have your say on the re-development of the Avenue Centre
- Pupils aim to go waste free for lunch
- Twickenham Carnival comes to town
- Young people's votes to decide how £1million youth fund is spent
- Richmond upon Thames - the best place to live
- Lord Puttnam visits as Art Fund Prize decision day looms
- Drive easy in Richmond town centre
- Healthy alternative to drugs
- Council concerned over preservation of Normansfield
- Teaching Awards hope for Hampton Hill
- Last chance to help Orleans House Gallery win £100,000
- Be local, buy local, and be proud of Whitton
Release Date: 08/06/2009
Drive easy in Richmond town centre
Drivers in Richmond town centre will have a diversion free summer, after a series of Council works to improve roads, junctions and traffic flow was completed.
The Council has been carrying out the works, which include using high quality York Stone, removing unneeded street clutter and signage and installing new traffic lights and crossings for several months.
While important, the works had led to a number of unavoidable diversion routes being put in place. From this month, the Council’s works are due to finish until next year, leaving streets from Richmond Circus all the way to Twickenham free to drive through without hindrance.
Cllr David Trigg, Richmond Council’s Cabinet Member for Traffic, Transport and Parking, said: “I’m aware the works have been inconvenient, but we want everyone to know that routes will be diversion free, meaning holidaymakers and residents will no longer be caught up in queues, or diverted out of their way because of roadworks.
“Our contractors have worked seven days a week to get the work done in the shortest time possible, and I’d like to thank everyone for bearing with us. The new street scene will create an even more attractive Richmond for the future.”
Contractors will still be working on footpaths until August, but it is not thought they will cause serious problems for pedestrians. By autumn, all of the Council’s works to improve the town centre are due to be finished. There will be a small amount of traffic management in place in the meantime, but no new diversions.
A new stage of works will start again further along the A305 in March / April 2010 as part of the on-going programme to improve routes through the borough, which will also see a redesign of the area around Richmond railway station.
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