A major road scheme in Hull city centre is nearing completion, National Highways has said. Work began in 2020 on the £355m Castle Street project to build a new split-level junction which involved lowering part of the busy road through an underpass, says the BBC.
The scheme takes part of the A63 underground, allowing for Ferensway and Commercial Road to meet at street level.
Senior project manager Fran Oliver said the road was expected to open to traffic in the coming weeks.
She said it had been “a fantastically large project”, involving specialist engineers and some “complicated calculations going on”.
“We’ve had specialists involved and team members who have been here from the very beginning, who are just desperate to see this road open and traffic passing though it.”
Work was originally due to finish by April 2025, but that was delayed by a year due to “extremely challenging ground conditions”.
Commenting on the delay, Oliver said:
“Fundamentally, the way we have constructed this scheme is how we have designed it, but we had to tweak it a little bit. Unfortunately, anyone who has driven down here will know how tight the space is, so every time you have a minor delay it does have a knock on impact on the end date of the scheme.”
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