Major Reading town centre junction closed for two weeks
Council admit there'll be disruption
A key town centre junction will close for two weeks from Monday (24 July) for essential repairs to be carried out.
The four-way junction at St Mary’s Butts, Oxford Road, Broad Street and West Street will be closed until Monday 7 August to allow for repairs to the deteriorating northern side of the junction and replacement of the granite kerb around the whole junction.
The council say the current condition has been presenting an increasing risk to all road users, particularly cyclists and motorcyclists, and is a priority to resolve.
The works have been timed to take place in the school holidays when traffic levels are lower. Signed diversions will be in place for buses and other traffic.
Karen Rowland, Lead Councillor for Environmental Services and Community Safety, said:
“We recognise that repairs on the junction will cause disruption, but this is unavoidable as the section in question has become an increased risk for cyclists and motorbikes and needs to be repaired. We are however ensuring that we are maximising work in these closure times, using a joined up approach to additionally resurface parts of Oxford Road and St Mary’s Butts in parallel”.
The Council add that they'll also take this opportunity to resurface a number of stretches of road around the junction. Two sections of St Mary’s Butts and a section of Oxford Road will be resurfaced.