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A45/A46 Tollbar End Improvement
A45/A46 Tollbar End Improvement
- Status
- Planned
- Located in
- Area 11
- Scheme type
- Programme of Major Schemes
Public Exhibition
The Highways Agency held a public exhibition on Friday 2nd March and Saturday 3rd March 2007 at the Courtyard Marriot Hotel Coventry. Some of the information from this has now been added to several new pages on this website. You can view these pages by using the navigation menu to the right.
A copy of the information leaflet produced prior to the public exhibition can be viewed on the publications page.
The Project
The A45/A46 Tollbar End Improvement is part of a package of works which also includes the M40 Junction 15 Bypass.
At current traffic levels, approximately 86,000 vehicles use the A45 / A46 Tollbar End roundabout every day. This level of traffic is significantly greater than the existing junction's design capacity, which results in congestion, significant queuing onto Tollbar End roundabout and long delays. These problems will be compounded by the expansion of Coventry Airport and other committed developments in the area.
Our main scheme objective is to provide relief from this congestion, improving journey times and reducing driver frustration by improving the capacity of the Tollbar End roundabout and the A45 Stonebridge Highway, benefitting both local and strategic road needs.
The main proposals are:
We would reduce the volume of traffic using Tollbar End roundabout by providing a two-lane dual-carriageway underpass link between the A46 Coventry Eastern Bypass and the A45 Stonebridge Highway. We would also enlarge the roundabout and improve all the existing accesses.
The existing A45 Stonebridge Highway would be widened to a three-lane dual-carriageway, between the new Tollbar End junction and Stivichall junction. This would improve capacity and allow traffic to maneuver safely into the required lane on approach to the junctions.
We would improve access to local businesses and Coventry Airport by changing the junction of Siskin Drive and Rowley Road from a roundabout to a traffic light controlled junction.
Traffic lights would be erected on each entry arm to the new Tollbar End roundabout. The signals would be connected to those at the Siskin Drive / Rowley Road junction and timings would be controlled so that they provide maximum efficiency in allowing traffic through the area.
New sign gantries would be erected, and we would re-paint the lane markings to improve the northbound A46 approach to Stivichall junction. The existing road signs in this area of the Scheme would also be improved.
We would create a new footpath / cycleway along the southern side of the A45, linking the two junctions together and we would significantly improve pedestrian access around Tollbar End roundabout.
