The good progress being made with highway widening works east of the new railway bridge on Gipsy Patch Lane has allowed South Gloucestershire Council to plan for a return to two-way traffic on part of the road with effect from Monday 22nd November.
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Local councillors and stakeholders have been informed that the planned date for a full (two-way) reopening of Gipsy Patch Lane has been brought forward by three months. Project managers at South Gloucestershire Council say they are now aiming to fully reopen the road from the end of September 2022.
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The through-route along Gipsy Patch Lane between Little Stoke and the A38 Gloucester Road has finally reopened, albeit in one direction only, following a road closure that lasted 10 months longer than originally planned. The road was closed at the railway bridge site on 6th March 2020 to permit demolition of the old narrow brick-built bridge…
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South Gloucestershire Council has announced that Gipsy Patch Lane will reopen to traffic in a westbound direction only (towards the A38) from 6am on Monday 6th September 2021. The one-way system will operate between the Little Stoke Lane junction and the mini-roundabout at Rolls-Royce.
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A full closure of Gipsy Patch Lane between its junction with Little Stoke Lane and the railway bridge is scheduled to come into effect from 8pm tonight (Friday 27th August 2021). The temporary road closure is required to allow preparations to be made for the planned one-way (westbound) reopening of the road…
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Part of the road surface under the new Gipsy Patch Lane railway bridge is to be tarmacked in the coming week (w/c 9th August 2021) in preparation for the planned one-way (westbound-only) reopening of Gipsy Patch Lane in September.
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Gipsy Patch Lane, which has been closed to motor vehicles at the railway bridge for 16 months, is to be partially reopened “in September [2021]”, South Gloucestershire Council has announced. A drop-in public information event will take place in the car park of Stokers public house on Wednesday 4th August.
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The closure of the straight stretch of Gifford Crescent leading directly off Gipsy Patch Lane from Monday 5th July 2021 means that motorists travelling from the east are now required to follow a diversion in order to reach the Little Stoke shops and post office.
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Following the frustrating news revealed in our May magazine that the railway bridge at Gipsy Patch Lane may not reopen to motorised traffic until December (and then only one way), the last month has seen a slew of announcements relating to highway works east of the bridge.
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Motorists in the Stokes have been dealt a double blow with the news that the road under the Gipsy Patch Lane railway bridge may now not open until December, and once it does, most of Gipsy Patch Lane will be restricted to one-way traffic flow for many months thereafter.
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