Roads open for new one-way system in Shrewsbury
Plans to pedestrianise part of Shrewsbury town centre are to move a step closer tomorrow as a new one-way system comes into operation.
New roads Williams Way and St Julian's Crescent, built by Fletcher Homes at the St Julian's Friars development site in Shrewsbury, will be opened to traffic on Tuesday from 10am.
Bringing the roads into use means Shropshire Council planners will be able to run an experimental closure of St Julian's Friars in the early part of next year to test a £200,000 plan to shut the road off to traffic and build improved crossings at the bottom of Wyle Cop.
The new roads means traffic will operate in a one-way anticlockwise 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.
All traffic wishing to access St Julian's Friars Car Park, BT, the bowling clubs and St Julian's Mews will need to travel up Beeches Lane (Town Walls), taking a left-turn into Williams Way just before the BT building. This new road leads down to St Julian's Car Park.
Traffic flow arrangements on St Julian's Friars will remain the same for now, but traffic will not be permitted to make a right-turn to the car park next to the old toilet blocks due to the one-way flow on Williams Way. Details of an experimental closure of St Julian's Friars at Wyle Cop will follow in the new year.
The existing town centre 20mph zone speed limit is being extended to the east of English Bridge, to include the new roads.
Simon Jones, Shropshire Council's cabinet member responsible for highways, said: "Please look out for traffic signs depicting the new arrangements."
