Nottingham's Lady Bay Bridge will close to traffic overnight for more than a week to allow for resurfacing and joint replacement works. The bridge, that crosses over part of the River Trent, will close from its junction with the A6520 Radcliffe Road and A6011 Meadow Lane overnight from Monday, July 17.
The works will take place between 8pm and 6am Mondays to Fridays until Saturday, July 29. During this time the road across the bridge will be closed to traffic, but the cycleway and footway section will remain open.
The bridge will be closed just on weeknights during the period in question. Several bridge joints will be replaced, a traffic bulletin states.
Contactor Thomas Bow will carry out the maintenance programme on behalf of highways agency Via East Midlands and Nottinghamshire County Council.
Whilst closed a diversion will be in place via Trent Bridge, Cattle Market Road, County Road and Meadow Lane. Additionally, gully cleansing and drainage improvement works will also take place whilst the road is closed to minimise any future disruption.
It has also been confirmed by the council that this planned work is not related to repairs carried out on the bridge last year after a lorry crashed through it. On July 4 last year Jimmie Whitehead, a director at Vale Skip Hire in Nottingham, was in a lorry that left the carriageway and crashed down the embankment.
Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service said he was freed by emergency services who attended the scene, which also included paramedics and police, and the lorry was eventually flipped and recovered after Jimmie was taken to hospital. He is the only man who was involved in the incident.
The bridge was initially reopened in one direction, a week on from the crash, before it fully reopened to traffic on August 20.
