Major Swindon roadworks should be finished by end of February
Some positive news for drivers across the town
Last updated 5th Nov 2021
Drivers who have suffered with delays and tailbacks caused by roadworks projects around Swindon will get some relief in February, when all the major schemes will be completed.
Swindon Borough Council has produced a timeline of when its biggest road improvement schemes will finish and there will be a gap of a month at the end of the winter, before more work starts in the town centre.
Which road schemes are finishing - and when?
The work to widen Mead Way, which has been stricken by delays of over a year, should be finished at the end of the month.
The White Hart Junction should be open to traffic again by the end of the year, after being closed for nearly five months due to urgent work to fix the land under the road surface.
The entire project of improvements – widening slip roads, installing lights to control the roundabout, creating an entirely new, and longer, ramp giving access to the A419 northbound – should be finished by February.
The Moonrakers junction reconfiguration, which saw a double mini-roundabout replaced by a light-controlled crossroads, was completed in autumn and in the last few weeks Junction 15 of the M4 has also been successfully finished.
To be finished in the next two months are three projects critical to handling traffic from 8,500 houses, to be built at the New Eastern Village expansion.
Work on the Piccadilly Roundabout in Covingham, the Oxford Road–Nythe Road junction and at Gable Cross junction should be completed by the end of the month for the Covingham project and the end of December for the others.
There are two projects which haven’t had much attention, as they involve new roads, so their construction has caused no disruption to traffic.
The Southern Connector Road, which will run from South Marston to the Commonhead Roundabout through the New eastern Villages, should be finished by August next year and the Wichelstowe Southern Access, which joins the development in south west Swindon to roads south of the M4, allowing traffic to bypass Old Town, will be finished this month.
More roadworks planned for Spring 2022
But the respite will be short-lived. Work in the town centre at Whalebridge to widen Corporation Street and the beginning of reconfiguring Fleming Way to create the bus boulevard will start in spring next year, with the Fleming Way work expected to go on until September 2024.