Planned work on roads in the Purbeck area will start up again, following the lifting of an embargo.
Earlier this year, Dorset Council highways service suspended all planned work on roads affected by the breakdown of the Sandbanks Ferry in order to minimise disruption on the network.
With the summer peak season now over, and with traffic counts showing figures average for this time of year, councillors and highway chiefs have agreed to lift the works embargo to ensure projects can get underway.
Cllr Ray Bryan, Cabinet member for Highways, Infrastructure and Environment, said: “We know that there will still be some additional traffic on these routes in to and out of Purbeck, but we must get back to business as usual to ensure that vital utility work and highway schemes can get underway.”
On Monday, 7 October, highways work to build a cycle link in Wareham will centre on Worgret Roundabout.
For two weeks, all approaches at the roundabout will be reduced to one lane so that dropped kerbs can be installed to improve crossing points for cyclists and pedestrians.
Although work started on 2 September, up to now, the project has not interfered with traffic flow. The scheme is widening the existing pavement into a shared use, off-road cycleway/footway from Worgret Roundabout, along the A351 Wareham Bypass, to Saxon Roundabout, to provide a valuable sustainable transport link between the new housing development and the railway station.
