Island Roads will carry out a significant carriageway improvement scheme at Fairlee Road, Newport, later this week.
Around 4,000 square metres of new surfacing will be laid in the section between the Roundhouse and Medina College over four nights starting Thursday.
Closed overnight
This section of Fairlee Road will be closed between 7.30pm and 6.30 am during the work with traffic diverted via Staplers Road. The work is being carried out overnight to minimise disruption.
The project is one of several schedules for the Autumn so as to avoid the busy summer months when the road network is at its busiest.
Middle Road
Island Roads is this week also undertaking a highway improvement scheme on the Middle Road outside Calbourne Mill and is due to undertake further road improvement on the approach to the Merrie Gardens Roundabout at Lake.
This scheme will be one overnight – again to minimise disruption – on 4th October 2023.
All schemes are subject to disruption for various reasons including inclement weather.
IR: Not possible to undertake this work without causing some impact
An Island Roads spokesperson said,
“Our planned highway improvement work tends to scale back in the high summer months as that is when the network is at its busiest and we need to be sensitive to the needs of the Island’s tourism industry.
“While we make every effort to minimise disruption, it is just not possible to undertake this work without causing some impact on residents and the travelling public, so we would like to apologise in advance for any inconvenience these improvements will cause.”
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