Sections of Milton Road will be resurfaced in June as the Greater Cambridge Partnership continues its delivery of improvements along this key route in and out of the city.

Next week, the GCP’s contractors, Milestone, will begin raising utility covers and laying new service ducts along Milton Road ahead of a fortnight of resurfacing works between Hurst Park Avenue and Birch Close that will require overnight road closures.

The GCP continues to make good progress on the Milton Road project which, when completed later this year, will deliver new bus lanes and improved walking and cycling links – including the city’s second CYCLOPS junction – to improve people’s daily journeys in and out of Cambridge.

Thomas Fitzpatrick, GCP’s Head of Programme, said:

“We apologise for any disruption these overnight works will cause to people who live in or travel along Milton Road and thank you for your patience.

“We are making good progress on Milton Road and expect to complete work later this year to make it easier for people to travel to by bus, bike or on foot to work, school or to meet their friends.”

The first of the overnight night road closures to enable the resurfacing work to be carried out will be between Mitcham’s Corner and Arbury Road from Monday 3 June between 8pm and 6am.

Once the first section is completed, the section of Milton Road from Arbury Road to King’s Hedges Junction will be closed.

Finally, Mitcham’s Corner to Elizabeth Way Roundabout will be closed to allow works to be completed next to Mitcham’s Corner and Gilbert Road.

Access will be maintained for all residents throughout the overnight works, with a traffic management team in place to direct and escort people through the closures.

The emergency services, pedestrians and cyclists will also be able to travel along Milton Road through the resurfacing works but there will be no access for bus services.

No parking will be allowed where the surfacing is taking place – this includes the layby outside the shops – to enable the work to be carried out.

Surfacing on adjacent side roads will also be carried out but this will be limited to the first 30 metres of the affected roads, which are: Highworth Avenue, Elizabeth Way, Oak Tree Avenue, Union Lane, Arbury Road and Birch Close.

For more information about the road works and the GCP’s Milton Road project visit the project page