Long-time residents on a narrow village street plagued by 'horrendous' traffic say they are beginning to notice the positive impacts of the recently opened £49m bypass in Gedling. MPs and councillors had argued for years Colliery Way, formerly the Gedling Access Road, would alleviate traffic through Gedling Village and now, one week in, residents have revealed whether these claims had any merit.
Colliery Way, a 3.8km bypass from Mapperley Plains to the Colwick Loop Road, had been in the pipeline since as early as the 1930s. It had undergone various and significant changes, including a route alteration, before construction finally began almost a century later in January of 2020.
It came to be not without issue, however, with soaring costs and a delay due to the coronavirus pandemic. But the bypass has finally opened, as planned, with various economical and ecological benefits to the area.
