12 Winter 2018
Keeping you in the know Our contractor, Balfour Beatty is producing a series of e-newsletters about our major new highways programme across the Borough. If you’d like to receive updates on the progress of one or indeed all of the five major schemes, simply email the addresses below with your name and email. The schemes are: • Arborfield Cross Relief Road • Barkham Bridge Improvements • Winnersh Relief Road phase 2 (including Lower Earley Way) • South Wokingham Distributor Road (including Eastern Gateway, Spine Road, Western Gateway) • North Wokingham Distributor Road (including West of Old Forest Road, Toutley Road, Ashridge Farm) More information: WRR@balfourbeatty.com (including Winnersh Relief Road Phase 2 and Lower Earley Way) Arborfieldcross@balfourbeatty.com (Arborfield Cross Relief Road) BarkhamBridge@balfourbeatty.com (Barkham Bridge) SWDR@balfourbeatty.com (Spine Road, Eastern Gateway, Western Gateway) NWDR@balfourbeatty.com (Toutley Road, Ashridge Farm, West of Old Forest Road)
www.facebook.com/wokinghamboroughcouncil
NEW HIGHWAYS FACEBOOK We are creating a new Facebook page called Wokingham Borough Council Traffic and Travel, devoted entirely to highways to give you all the latest information on planned and reactive roadworks across the Borough. It will also include updates on the major highways projects and is aimed at those of you wanting to know how these and roadworks affect your journeys, thus helping you to plan your routes in advance.
Executive View Cllr Anthony Pollock, Executive Member for Highways and Transport “We’re continually looking at new ways to make it easier for you to find out about both planned and emergency roadworks, giving you the information you need to plan your journeys. In addition to our new e-newsletters and Facebook page, there’s www.roadworks.org and the ‘roadworks’ section of our website where you can also sign up for traffic email, text alerts and on our ‘major new developments’ section sign up for our new highways newsletter.”
Street light project nearly finished We’ve replaced more than 15,600 street lights and 8,480 of their columns across the Borough with new more reliable and energy efficient LED versions, and are now down to the last few hundred. We’ve also been upgrading the lighting for traffic signs and subways, which we’ll complete next year. LED lighting reduces energy consumption by up to 60 per cent and don’t need replacing as often. We’ve also installed a remote control and monitoring system into the new lighting so we can check on their health, and dim them later at night when there are fewer motorists. This a joint project with Slough Borough Council and Reading Borough Council thanks to Department for Transport funding.
