Drivers in and around Bristol will have seven National Highways road closures to watch out for this week. The latest expected works list, with notes from National Highways, shows that seven closures are due to start over the next two weeks. But have locals been impacted or seen delays due to road closures and road works so far this year?
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00:00 Drivers in and around Bristol will have seven national highway road closures to watch out
00:09 for this week. The latest expected works list with notes from National Highways shows that
00:15 seven closures are due over the next two weeks. But have locals been impacted or seen delays
00:22 due to road closures or road work so far this year?
00:27 It is disgusting. Shutting off main roads and loads of things like that over there.
00:32 All day's pensioners, nowhere to walk down. Doctors are nothing.
00:38 Yeah, because my hubby drives me, but it's like for instance when we went down to Westbury
00:43 and they closed Falkendale off, that caused such a nightmare. And then they were doing
00:47 something on Lower Noel Lane as well, so it just made everything a nightmare. And then
00:53 they closed that road off and they've closed this one off.
00:57 The major road works include the M5 northbound junction 19 to 18 which will see lane closures
01:03 for structural maintenance until January 19th. The M5 southbound will see lane closures until
01:10 the same date for structural maintenance which is said to cause delays of around 10 minutes.
01:16 The M32 southbound and northbound will see one to two lane closures for electrical works
01:21 until January 18th. National Highways is responsible for the maintenance of motorways and major
01:28 A roads, so closures of small roads will not be included in their schedule. But the Bristol
01:34 City Council website via network shows smaller road closures and road works around the city.
01:42 Let's visit them. So I am here just by the Glencoin Square which
01:46 has been closed since the start of November and is not due to open until the 2nd of February.
01:52 The closure of the road has caused indefinite delays for locals visiting the village shopping
01:57 areas. The main road down the bottom, buses, two
02:01 don't come along here no more because it's been diverted and for all days pensioners
02:06 like I said, it's a murder. I had to walk out the Lanarkos road to get a two the other
02:10 week. I wasn't very happy about it. I am here on Greystoke Avenue in North Bristol
02:15 which has been closed from the 3rd of January and is not expected to open until the 28th
02:21 of January for street works. The closure allows locals access to Port Elizabeth House and
02:27 access to 9 to 29 Greystoke Avenue but has caused a large build up of traffic on Southmead
02:34 Road and Falkendale Road due to the road closure. Multiple diversions are signposted in the
02:40 surrounding areas. It's just the extra time it takes you to
02:46 plan a route, you know, just to do something like shopping, something simple like that.
02:52 But why they had to do it all at once, I don't know. It's just a nightmare.
02:57 Only time will tell the impact of the current road closures of the city of Bristol.
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