United Kingdom-Bedford: Dual carriageway construction work

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The A63 Castle Street Improvement is classed as a Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project (NSIP) under the Planning Act 2008 (the Act). The Highways Agency is proposing to relieve congestion and provide better access to the Port of Hull by improving the A63 between the St James Street/ Porter Street junctions and the Market Place/Queen Street junctions. The objectives of the Project are:
— to reduce traffic congestion,
— improve access to the port,
— improve safety for road users and the local community,
— reduce severance between the city centre and the leisure facilities to the south of the A63 Castle Street.
The Project is approximately 1.5km long and the main aspects are:
— advance works to divert third-party utilities and the archaeological excavation to exhume approximately 15,000 bodies from the Trinity Burial Ground.
— Improving the Mytongate junction by lowering the A63 by approximately 7 metres and raising Ferensway/Commercial Road by approximately 1 metre to cross the A63 on a new bridge.
— Between the Princes Dock Street junction and Market Place widening the eastbound carriageway to three lanes.
— Removing existing signalised pedestrian crossings and providing two number new pedestrian and Non Motorised User (NMU) footbridge crossings, one of which will be an iconic structure to demark the Port of Hull;
— Changes to side roads and local property access to improve safety;
— Localised diversion of third-party utilities that currently cross beneath the existing A63.
Additionally there is an opportunity to improve the Garrison Road roundabout which is adjacent to the A63 Castle Street scheme and is estimated at £5 million. This is not included in II.2.1) our range estimate for the scheme. The Secretary of State may instruct the contractor to deliver the improvement, subject to satisfactory completion of any statutory processes, benefits in combining these schemes, funding and programme dates aligning.
It is envisaged that the form of contract will be Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) based on the NEC contract April 2013 update.

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UKC North East (England)

45233224 - Dual carriageway construction work

45233128 - Roundabout construction work

71322000 - Engineering design services for the construction of civil engineering works

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