🚧 Proposed upgrades to the A46 Nettleham roundabout 🚦
By: Jamie Waller, LDRS
A major new scheme which would drastically improve traffic on Lincoln’s Nettleham Road roundabout has been backed by officials.
The initiative would see an extra lane added to the roundabout and a footbridge would also be created over the A46 to help improve traffic in the area.
Sam Edwards, head of highways and economic infrastructure at Lincolnshire County Council, said drivers would see a huge difference once it was finished.
“The best comparison is when we finished the nearby Riseholme roundabout back in 2020, it removed the vast majority of congestion there – that’s exactly what we’re expecting here,” he told the Local Democracy Reporting Service.
The council’s Highways committee gave approval for the project on Monday, June 8, and is expected to be signed off by the Executive councillor soon.
The scheme will help walkers and cyclists move between Lincoln and the nearby villages without crossing the busy dual-carriageway.
A report said the roundabout is “currently operating over capacity, with significant peak-time queuing on all approaches” and safety concerns around the crossing facilities.
The extra lanes and footbridge should be ready by spring 2028 if approval is given.
The cost of the project is estimated at between ÂŁ7.4million and ÂŁ12.1million, paid for by grants, with the expected cost just under ÂŁ10million.
Once work has begun, attention is likely to turn to the next proposed scheme which will be for the neighbouring Wragby Road roundabout in Lincoln.
Mr Edwards said:
“You can never eliminate traffic, you only redistribute it.
“Riseholme roundabout improvements moved some of the issues to Nettleham – hence why we’re doing it now – and we expect this will move some of the issues to Wragby Road.
“We’re preparing a similar scheme for there which will improve the size of the roundabout and eliminate congestion problems there too.”
A meeting in July will seek funding to begin designing the project, which Mr Edwards said would be three or four years away.
