A36 Closed for April

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[grahame]

I live near the signposted diversion route and it's a lot busier that usual at the moment ...







This stretch of the A350 is always busy, but there was a serious jam some two miles long the other  morning when I had to venture out there.  The Department for Transport's map makes it clear why:



Towards the left of the map, you'll see a V shaped pair of congested roads (orange and red). The leftmost one is the A36, closed at present and the one on the right is the A350 which is taking the extra traffic.   The red (worst congested) sections are two sections near Melksham,, and between Chippenham and the M4.

[Lee]

The A36 is due to reopen on Friday night (link below.)
http://thisisbath.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=180730&command=displayContent&sourceNode=232315&home=yes&more_nodeId1=163047&contentPK=20881600

[Chris from Nailsea]

... and open it did - with some celebration, apparently:

http://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/display.var.2359019.0.party_marks_end_of_road_closure.php

[Chris from Nailsea]

Unfortunately, there are now fresh problems (being blamed on the poor quality of the resurfacing, apparently):

Just over a week after the A36 reopened, an accident involving three cars closed it again for more than four hours last night. Emergency services were called to the stretch of road close south of Limpley Stoke at 7.20pm. When they arrived they discovered that there had been a collision involving a Mini Cooper, a Volkswagen Passat and a Peugot 206, which was on its side. Three people were trapped in the Peugot but three others who had been travelling in the other cars had managed to free themselves and escaped with cuts and bruises.

Police closed the road while firefighters from Bath and West Wiltshire cut through the roof and doors of the Peugot to release the people inside.

The road partially reopened at around 11pm to allow traffic travelling towards Bath to continue on its journey, but it was not completely clear until just after midnight.

See http://thisisbath.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=163490&command=displayContent&sourceNode=163316&contentPK=20990256&folderPk=89126&pNodeId=163047