MOTORISTS are set for disruption in Oxford today as work on Frideswide Square clashes with two other sets of road repairs.

Workmen are to start preparing Frideswide Square for redevelopment work, which will get under way on Friday, February 27.

Engineers will begin removing traffic islands to allow the first stage of the £5.8million project to start.

A large roundabout is to be built at the entrance to the train station and two smaller roundabouts at the other end of the square in front of the Royal Oxford Hotel. There will be a series of public open spaces at three sides of the square.

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Cowley Road will also be closed in both directions today between The Plain roundabout, which is being redeveloped, and Tyndale Road.

Vehicles coming into Oxford will be diverted to Iffley Road via Temple Street. Those leaving the city will be diverted on to Iffley Road and back onto Cowley Road via Circus Street. Cyclists in both directions will be diverted via Dawson Street and St Clement’s Street.

The road is being widened in the £1.5m scheme to improve safety for cyclists.

There will also be rerouting on the A34 at Milton Interchange today.

Traffic travelling south towards Newbury will be limited to 30mph and vehicles will be diverted down the slip road, around the A4130 roundabout, and back onto the A34.

This is to give the Highways Agency space to grit the A34 if necessary.

The £10.6m scheme at Milton will see a ‘hamburger’ style roundabout controlled with traffic lights to try to cut congestion.

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