It looks like the road works at the junction of The Mount and Holgate Road will continue until Friday.
The worst delays seem to be on Holgate Road.
Hopefully the work – which involves repairing a sewer pipe – will be completed before eh school holidays finish
Ageing and outdated traffic signals at the junction of Bishopthorpe Road and Scarcroft Road are set to be replaced next month by City of York Council, as part of a scheme to help improve pedestrian access and ease congestion in the area.
The works will include replacing all the ageing traffic signal equipment, creating a new pedestrian crossing on Bishopthorpe Road, removing the small central triangular island on Bishopthorpe Road and widening/resurfacing the footway.
Works will start on Monday 9 September and are estimated to take around four weeks to complete. The hours of working will be 9.30am – 4.30pm, Monday to Friday and 8am to 4pm Saturdays and Sundays.
In order to safely construct part of the work some evening works may be required. Notification of these will be provided in advance.
Works will be suspended between Friday 27 and Sunday 29 September due to the York Balloon Fiesta.
The new technology being installed will help to manage traffic in the area and enable the new systems to link direct to the council’s Traffic and Control Centre, so that Network Monitoring Officers can manage the flow of traffic better in busy periods.
The right turn from Scarcroft Road to Bishopthorpe Road will be closed during the works and diversion routes will be in place.
During the works it is anticipated that all bus services will operate as normal, however there will be delays when travelling through the junction.
The junction will be operating under temporary signals during the works and motorists are expected to experience delays while the works are underway.
Another consultation is to take place on how traffic will access the York central site.
Its over ten years since the options were first published. Since then, debate has raged over whether the link should be from Holgate Road or Water End. The Chancery Rise option was favoured by the then Labour controlled Council who adopted it with little respect for objectors views.
Public consultation – York central access options 2007
The now the coalition run authority is trying to sort out the mess left by their predecessors.
The proposed consultation on access routes into the York Central site by the York Central Partnership has been given the green light by senior councillors.
City of York Council’s Executive made the decision after receiving an update on progress on the project to redevelop the 72-hectare site, which sits next to the city’s railway station.
York Central Partnership is working towards creating a heritage-led masterplan that will be the first step in opening up the previously landlocked site and demonstrate how it can create new neighbourhoods, parks and public spaces, as well as providing significant new housing and grade-A commercial office space on the largest brownfield site in northern England.
York Central Partnership is made up of Network Rail, the Homes and Community Agency, City of York Counciland the National Railway Museum, whose own ambitious masterplan will form part of the eventual plans.
York Central is a severely constrained site, entirely surrounded by railway lines; the main east coast route connecting London to Edinburgh and the ‘avoiding lines’ for freight trains to bypass the station, in addition to significant rail yards.
Views are now being sought on the ways that vehicles can access the site. A study has already considered factors including the engineering challenge, land availability, and the environment but further views are being sought on the community impact, including noise and visual impact.
York Central access route coptions July 2017
The partnership will present three possible access options for consultation. Two relate to a potential link from Water End into the western part of the site and the third would see access created from Chancery Rise.
Three previous access options being considered, which would have seen a link coming off Poppleton Road have been rejected because they either land on the York Yard South railway sidings, which are still required for rail use until 2023 at the earliest, or would disrupt the use and development of the Network Rail Holgate Engineering Works.
York Central Partnership plans to carry out the consultation on options for the access road in August and September, which will be followed later in the year with a consultation on the scheme’s masterplan.
In the run up to the consultation, the Partnership is also seeking to arrange a series of meetings with groups and individuals interested in the scheme. These sessions will be to explain about the process to date, how it will continue to develop and the key points where groups can get involved to have their say.
At the meeting, executive councillors were also asked to recommend to Council that a wider budget of £37.4m be approved for York Central transport improvements funded from the West Yorkshire Plus Transport Fund.
3 access routes for public consultation July 2017
A man has been arrested in connection with a murder investigation in York.
Officers were called in the early hours of Monday 6 March 2017 to concerns about the behaviour of a man near York Railway Station who had blood on his hands. Police attended the area and found the man in the Scarcroft Road area where he was arrested.
They later found the found the body of a man in his 50s inside a flat on Holgate Road in York.
Scene guards were in place at locations across the city including the scene of the murder at the flat in Holgate Road, a bus stop outside York Railway Station and a taxi rank on Queen Street. Offices remain at the flat this morning as the investigation continues.
The arrested man, 19, remains in police custody for questioning.
Anyone who saw any suspicious activity in the area of Holgate Road between 11pm last night (Sunday 5 March 2017) and 3am on the morning of Monday 6 March is asked to call North Yorkshire Police on 101 and pass information to the Force Control Room.
Please quote reference 12170037677 when passing on information.
Police are not yet in a position to release the name of the victim.
York has been selected by the government’s Department for Transport (DfT) to trial new technology that could revolutionise the way we manage traffic flow and digital technology in vehicles in England.
The DfT announced today that City of York Council (CYC) was successfully awarded a share of £2million funding from the Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems grant (CITS) to lead on this special project.
The £300k funding will be used to gather research, intelligence and data in York over a two year period from April.
The aim of the trial is to demonstrate that the new technology will improve traffic flow, congestion, road safety and online connectivity.
The trial in York will focus on the A59 corridor from the Park & Ride site to Holgate Bridge. It will start by using location data collected from vehicles monitored by company INRIX Ltd, which monitors traffic flow across Europe, and are one of the project’s partners to trial better phasing of traffic signals.
In later stages, parts of CYC’s fleet and other vehicles will be fitted with communications to allow them to ‘speak’ to traffic signals along the A59. The trial will also provide the commercial partners in the project from across the country with the opportunity to showcase their products here in York.
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A report which outlines plans for a preferred layout for the Holgate Road cycle scheme following a consultation with local residents will be considered on Thursday 14 April at a Decision Session for the Executive Member for Transport and Planning.
The report includes proposed changes to Holgate road between the Iron Bridge and Acomb Road to provide more continuous cycle lanes.
The new scheme aims to address the balance between the need for residential parking and a cycle lane.
In 2013 a feasibility study was carried out looking at the possibility of providing continuous cycle lanes along Holgate Road between the Iron Bridge and Acomb Road. The study showed that the cycle lane provision would be largely determined by the amount of on street parking.
The Decision Session takes place on Thursday 14 April at West Offices from 2pm and is open to members of the public or is available to watch later online from: www.york.gov.uk/webcasts
To find out more about the report, or to attend, visit: http://democracy.york.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=738&MId=9035
