Night closures on major Shropshire road for roadworks
A main road through Shropshire will be closed at night for three weeks so damage caused by winter weather can be repaired.
The A5 Nesscliffe Bypass, which runs between Oswestry and Shrewsbury, will be closed eastbound to allow the £480,000 roadworks to be carried out.
The road will be closed each night between 8pm and 6am from May 12, with traffic being diverted through Nesscliffe village.
The diversion will only add minimal time and distance on to journeys and the Highways Agency said the work will allow the road to be safe and smooth.
Purnima Kaul, Highways Agency project manager, said: "The three-week scheme will be carried out overnight on the eastbound carriageway between the Wolfshead Roundabout and Felton Butler Roundabout between 8pm and 6am.
"Parts of the carriageway have suffered a number of defects over the winter. Carrying out this work will ensure the continued provision of a safe, smooth surface for road users.
"The scheme proposes to improve the road surface at certain locations thereby reducing likelihood of accidents.
"A visual condition survey has revealed that parts of the carriageway are in very poor condition, with significant areas of very severe fretting having developed quite rapidly over the past winter.
"Clearly signed diversions will be in place during the overnight closures of the A5 between the Wolfshead roundabout and the Felton Butler roundabout, with traffic diverted through the village of Nesscliffe."
The road is due to be reopened at night as usual by June 3.
Roadworks were carried out on the same stretch of road in May 2013, after ice, frost and snow had left potholes and damaged the road surface and anti-skid surface close to the roundabouts.
Meanwhile, roadworks on the A483 on the Penarth bends just north of Newtown are back in place following an Easter break.
There are temporary traffic lights and a temporary road built to allow work to be carried out on a collapsed culvert which resulted in the road being closed entirely on March 22.
The road works have been causing large delays on a road already notorious for hold-ups, with Russell George, Montgomeryshire AM, counting more than 300 cars waiting in the traffic lights just before Easter weekend.
