Important Announcement: A465 Five-Week Summer Closure 2024
Important Announcement: A465 Summer Closure 2024
The following announcement provides you with details of an upcoming closure of the A465.
The Welsh Government have issued the announcement to the media as it’s a five-week closure and it’s important to make people aware. This will help to minimise disruption as a significant number of people from across Wales will have had advance notification of the closure and details of the diversion route.
Essential work on A465 for five weeks
Motorists are advised the section of the A465 between the A470 (Cefn Coed) junction and the temporary roundabout at Pant Industrial Estate will be fully closed for five weeks this summer, to allow for important work to take place quicker and with less uncertainty for the travelling public.
The closure will start at 06:00 on Monday 29 July and will end at 06:00 on Monday 2 September 2024, and is taking place during the school summer holidays when there is less traffic on this section.
The closure will allow several important elements of the A465 work to progress, helping save time on the construction programme and removing the uncertainty to journey times which overnight and weekend closures can cause.
Feedback from the public indicates constant change, such as overnight and weekend closures, are more disruptive than a fixed closure with a clear diversion.
The diversion in this case will be around four miles longer, but the journey time should be under five minutes longer only.
The A465 between the Dowlais Top junction and the Pant Industrial Estate temporary roundabout will still be open, but only for local traffic.
Discussions have taken place with partners including the local authority, Prince Charles Hospital and the emergency services before the decision was taken.
The closure and the work is being managed by Future Valleys Construction.
The work being carried out during the closure is as follows:
• Removing the old bridge at Bryniau
• Construction of a new bridge at Bryniau
• Constructing a new highway embankment for the eastbound carriageway at Gurnos
• Progressing work to construct the new Prince Charles Hospital Junction
• Integrating all sections of road and the footway over Taf Fechan viaduct
• Completing the carriageway through Cefn Coed and over Taf Fawr viaduct.
FAQs are available here: www.a465.org/FAQs
Diversion maps can be viewed at: www.a465.org/SummerDiversion
Please Note:
Future Valleys construction will be holding public meetings to update the public and take questions on the closure and other elements of the scheme.
Two meetings will be held in Merthyr Tydfil on Monday 8 July at Merthyr Town Football Club, Penydarren Park, Merthyr Tydfil, CF47 8RF. The meetings will take place at 2pm and 6pm, each with a two hour duration.
Two meetings will be held in Hirwaun on Monday 15 July at St Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church Hall, Station Road, Hirwaun, CF44 9TA. The meetings will take place at 2pm and 6pm, each with a two hour duration.
We thank you for your continued support during the construction and apologise for any inconvenience this may cause you.
If you have any queries regarding these works, please contact our public liaison team by telephone 07762 451850 or email A465enquiries@futurevalleysconstruction.com.
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