City junctions to be upgraded at cost of £500k

The City Link Road in central Hereford will be among the streets involved in one of the schemes, costing £336,000

More than £500,000 is to be spent upgrading "unreliable and obsolete" traffic signalling in two parts of Hereford.

A total of £336,000 will be spent improving signal equipment and controllers in Aylestone Hill, City Link Road, Commercial Road, Stonebow Road and Union Walk.

Meanwhile, pedestrian crossings to the west of the city at the junction of the A438 with Grimmer Road, where Eign Street becomes Whitecross Road, are to be updated at a cost of £196,000.

Herefordshire Council said it would spend £66,000 and use £466,000 from government grants on the two schemes.

The £336,000 initiative lies alongside the new £10m Transport Hub taking shape in front of Hereford's railway station, partly intended to improve walking and cycling connections across the city.

The City Link Road running west from the station was completed in 2022.

'Get traffic flowing'

A new community health hub opened in Nelson House at the junction involved in the £196,000 scheme at the end of last year.

When the council bid for cash from the government's Green Light Fund last spring, it said it wanted to remove in-road traffic detection in favour of above-ground systems for better reliability.

It has now said the work would "improve the operation of traffic signals to better reflect current traffic conditions and get traffic flowing".

This news was gathered by the Local Democracy Reporting Service which covers councils and other public service organisations.