Months of work on a £2.2m scheme to extend a cycle route along one of the busiest roads in and out of Norwich are about to begin.
Drivers will face road closures, speed limit cuts and temporary traffic lights after work on the A140 Holt Road begins on Monday, June 16.
The first phase of Norfolk County Council's project to extend the yellow pedalway cycle route between Middletons Lane and the Northern Distributor Road is due to last until November.
The work will initially focus on the area around the Middletons Lane/ Amsterdam Way junction.
A new signal-controlled pedestrian and cycle crossing will be installed in Middletons Lane and footpaths around the junction and outside homes will be widened and resurfaced to create a shared use path.
While the work is done, temporary traffic lights will be in place on the junction with the A140, Middletons Lane and Amsterdam Way, manually controlled from 7am until 7pm to help traffic flow.
There will also be a temporary 30mph speed limit through the area.
The council said bus services, including park and ride, will still run, but there may be delays and timetable alterations.
And in October, there will need to be full overnight closures of the A140 Holt Road so resurfacing can be done.
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The council said further details on those closures will be announced nearer the time, but access for residents, businesses and emergency vehicles will be maintained.
The scheme has previously come in for criticism, with Norwich Cycling Campaign branding it as "unsafe, unacceptable and substandard".
Part of the scheme had included a pathway between Bush Road in Hellesdon and the A140 Holt Road, but that was scrapped after opposition.
Graham Plant, Conservative-controlled County Hall's cabinet member for highways, infrastructure and transport, said: "This area is a major corridor for all modes of transport and these plans look to improve on and extend the existing yellow pedalway route.
"It will also maintain current capacity for general traffic and make the area better for people walking, wheeling and using bus services.
"We revised the design based on public feedback from the original consultation and have broken the delivery of this major piece of work into smaller phases to limit disruption on the network whilst works are carried out."
After the first phase ends in November, further work will be done outside homes early next year.
There will then be a final phase to connect the upgraded route to the NDR later next year.
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