Cllr Cahal Burke welcomes the Acre Street/Lidget Street road improvements.
I am delighted to inform you that much needed highway improvements will be taking place on Acre Street/Lidget Street in Lindley on September 26 and road users and visitors to Huddersfield Royal Infirmary are being advised of changes to bus services and access.
The hospital has been consulted about the temporary evening closures of the road from 6.30pm to 11pm between its junctions with Temple Street and New Hey Road until October 14.
Access for accident and emergency and other visitors will be signed via Occupation Road but pedestrian access will be maintained along Acre Street.
The hospital has also agreed to allow temporary parking at the Acre Mills temporary hospital car park for residents of Acre Street who will temporarily lose their on-street parking during the work.
Local businesses have been written to about the work but will be open as usual during the closure period and local people have been informed. The road will be closed Monday to Friday from 6.30pm to 11pm between September 26 and Oct 14.
Bus route changes
There will be no bus services along Lidget Street/Acre Street between September 28 and 30 and October 6, October 7 and October 13. Buses for the hospital will be stopping on Thornhill Road and New Hey Road on these dates.
Bus diversion routes are as follows during weekday evenings from 6.30pm to 11pm between September 26 and October 14.
Service 370 from Huddersfield will operate normally as far as Lidget Street, then via Occupation Road and Thornhill Road and resume its normal route at Westbourne Road. Service 371 will follow this diversion in the opposite direction.
Services 372 and 501 will operate normally as far as Westbourne Road, then via Thornhill Road and Occupation Road, resuming its normal route at Lidget Street.
When Lidget Street and Acre Street are closed together:
Service 370 will operate as normal to West Street/Lidget Street junction then via East Street, New Hey Road and Thornhill Road and resume its normal route at Westbourne Road. Service 371 will follow this diversion in reverse.
Service 372 will terminate at Marsh Bay Horse.
Service 501 will operate via Edgerton Road and East Street and will then resume its normal route at West Street.
K Line services 319 343 360 366 and 368 and Stotts service 388 will be unaffected by these works as they do not operate in the evenings.