Roadworks have started to build a new cycling route linking Woodley town centre and Palmer Park in East Reading.
Years in planning, the scheme will create two segregated cycle lanes. Wokingham Borough Council's highways contractors began work on Monday 9 March in Woodlands Avenue between Roslyn Road and Lytham Road. That section is due to finish on Monday 16 March, when a road closure will move west along Woodlands Avenue between Roslyn Road and Woodwaye.
"We're about to finish building the first section of our active travel route from Woodley town centre to Palmer Park in Reading.
From next Monday, March 16, the road closure is moving west along Woodlands Avenue between Roslyn Road and Woodwaye.
The Woodlands Avenue works will run until mid-August, with additional works to be confirmed on Church Road and Culver Lane.
The finished route includes cycle tracks separated from both the pavement and the road.
It's being funded by the Department for Transport as part of our long-term vision for improving the borough's walking and cycling links."
Drivers will be diverted via open sections of Woodlands Avenue, Howth Drive, Beechwood Avenue and Lytham Road.
The borough council received £3 million to deliver the Woodley to Reading Active Travel route from the previous Conservative government.
James Aldridge, Local Democracy Reporter
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