The area, known as the Old Market Gap, now has:
I am really pleased to see the new layout for this busy, central junction, which has been a missing link in the cycling network for many years, replacing a poor-quality subway. The area is now more walking and cycling friendly, which will make it easier for all road users to navigate, and I am optimistic we will see further ambitious schemes like this one throughout the city over coming years.
Councillor Ed Plowden, Chair of the Transport and Connectivity Committee
It is one of the many ways we are working to encourage more people to travel actively so they can receive all the health, wellbeing and economic benefits, while helping us to reduce congestion and air pollution in the city.
Although the construction work is complete, work to landscape the area will take place this summer and in the autumn. This will include planting shrubs and new trees.
The £1.2 million project has been funded by the West of England Combined Authority through a grant from the Department for Transport’s Active Travel Fund.
Residents in Temple Cloud are being asked to share their views on proposals to reduce the speed of traffic through the village and encourage active travel.
North Somerset Council is inviting everyone who lives, works, or studies in, or regularly visits the area to take part in a new Transport and Travel Survey this summer.
Helen Godwin, the new Mayor of the West of England, has today joined a coalition of eleven of England’s regional Mayors to sign up to an ambitious joint statement pledging to create a new national walking, wheeling and cycling network, enabling millions more happy, healthy and green journeys.
Bath & North East Somerset Council is proposing to make permanent a through traffic restriction in Sydney Road, Bath following a six-month experimental trial.
Construction work, to prevent flooding and improve walking and cycling routes on a stretch of Whiteladies Road between its junctions with Tyndalls Park Road/St Pauls Road and Queens Road, will start on Monday 14 July 2025.
