Traffic-free road trial dates to be announced for Shrewsbury
The timetable for ambitious new £200,000 plans to pedestrianise a Shrewsbury town centre street will be announced this week.
In a public drop-in session on Tuesday officers from Shropshire Council will unveil detailed plans about the second phase of an experimental traffic system which will involve the closure of St Julian's Friars at the junction with Wyle Cop.
Detailed drawings will be available to view, and a date for implementing the temporary closure will be announced at the session which takes place between 5pm and 7.30pm at the Abbots Mead Hotel, in St Julian's Friars, Shrewsbury.
The drop-in session is also being staged as part of the ongoing consultation on the newly-opened road layout in the St Julian's Friars area of the town centre.
Local councillors will be on hand to answer questions and discuss the new traffic system which was introduced on December 18. It saw two new roads Williams Way and St Julian's Crescent, built by Fletcher Homes at the St Julian's Friars development site in Shrewsbury, open to traffic.
Traffic is now operating in a one-way anti-clockwise direction from Town Walls, past St Julian's Friars car park, across the junction with St Julian's Friars and through to the junction next to English Bridge.
Bringing the roads into use mean Shropshire Council planners are now able to run an experimental closure of St Julian's Friars to test the £200,000 plan to shut the road off to traffic and build improved crossings at the bottom of Wyle Cop.
All of the new traffic arrangements have been made under an experimental traffic order where the first six months of the experiment is an official consultation period. Comments can be made by the public up until June 18.
Councillor Andrew Bannerman, member for Quarry and Coton Hill, added: "The scheme to enhance St Julian's Friars will benefit those who have driven into the town and parked in the St Julian's Friars car park, and it will assist the residents of the Belle Vue and Coleham areas who walk or cycle into the town centre."
He added: "We are keen to hear views of residents and visitors." E-mail traffic.engineering @shropshire.gov.uk or call 0345 678 9000.
