M4 closures next week

[Delboy]

Get Reading say M4 will be closed next week between junctions 10-11 from 9pm . With 20000 expected for QPR game Thursday traffic madness !

[Harpers So Solid Crew]

Also possible delays at black boy roundabout after the game as that's where the work is happening.

[Nameless]

20,000 ? Seems optimistic for a Thursday.
Doesn't the diversion run across the Black Boy going along Lower Earley Way ? Should be worth watching them install the big new bridge. Hopefully they get the traffic light phasing sorted there.

[RoyalBlue]

Which clowns scheduled this work for then?

Why the F8ck don't they move it by a few days. Saturday nights tend to be quieter.

Should make the idiots appear on the pitch at the Mad Stad at half-time!

[percy_freeman]

I think the "idiots" are SKY. Football should be 3pm on Saturdays!

[AthleticoSpizz]

^ this

[sandman]

I think the "idiots" are SKY. Football should be 3pm on Saturdays!

^ this

I have to work next Saturday so I would like to thank Sky for rearranging this fixture as I would have missed it had it stayed at it's original date and time. Heil Murdoch.

[AthleticoSpizz]

after today, you may just want to move your work date to Thursday evening.

[CountryRoyal]

With 20000 expected for QPR game

[Harpers So Solid Crew]

Qpr only taken about 1300 for this game , and has gone on general sale

[genome]

With 20000 expected for QPR game

Actual lol

[Mr.Swainey]

Qpr only taken about 1300 for this game , and has gone on general sale

Surely QPR and their massive support will be able to bring more than a few taxis down?

[bcubed]

20,000 ? Seems optimistic for a Thursday.
Doesn't the diversion run across the Black Boy going along Lower Earley Way ? Should be worth watching them install the big new bridge. Hopefully they get the traffic light phasing sorted there.

Might forget about the game and just watch the bridge being installed

Now I think about it, can't come up with a good reason to go to the game. And Already paid for it is not one of them

[One8Seven1*]

Get Reading say M4 will be closed next week between junctions 10-11 from 9pm . With 20000 expected for QPR game Thursday traffic madness !

15000 in the ground for kick-off, the rest late or turn around and go home. Well planned as always!

[UpThePrem]

Get Reading say M4 will be closed next week between junctions 10-11 from 9pm . With 20000 expected for QPR game Thursday traffic madness !

15000 in the ground for kick-off, the rest late or turn around and go home. Well planned as always!

Why would anyone be late? It isn't shut until half time.

[Green]

What bridge is being replaced? And why the need, are they increasing capacity or just replacing like for like?

I appreciate we live in austere times but I always feel it's a shame more aren't made of them, architecturally speaking.

[PieEater]

Alongside the application for homes and community facilities, the University will also be delivering an Eastern Relief Road (ERR) road east of Shinfield. The eastern relief road will be a single, 7.3m wide, carriageway road running eastwards in an arc from a new bridge over the M4. It will pass to the north of a small reservoir to a new roundabout allowing access to the future Reading University Science and Innovation Park (SIP). From the SIP roundabout the relief road will continue southwards crossing Cutbush Lane, to a new roundabout junction with the A327 Arborfield Road, east of Parrot Farm.

The ERR will connect the Reading urban area to the north and the A327 Arborfield Road south east of Shinfield. The ERR will primarily be a single carriageway route with the exception of the proposed new dual carriageway motorway overbridge. It will also provide an early access route for the University of Reading's planned Science and Innovation Park, near Shinfield.

The new bridge over the M4 will have a span of approximately 43m and a width of approximately 24m, carrying six traffic lanes. The bridge will link the Black Boy junction to the north of the M4 with a new three arm signal-controlled junction to the south. The existing A327 Black Boy Bridge shall be closed to southbound vehicles and buses to allow its use by pedestrians, cyclists and northbound buses.

Then 2500 houses in Shinfield and 3500 in Arborfield Garrison

[rob the royal]

Oh dear...

What's the best way to Fulham then? I might have to drop someone off there after the game on Thursday...

[One8Seven1*]

Get Reading say M4 will be closed next week between junctions 10-11 from 9pm . With 20000 expected for QPR game Thursday traffic madness !

15000 in the ground for kick-off, the rest late or turn around and go home. Well planned as always!

Why would anyone be late? It isn't shut until half time.

Because they didn't read the article like me? Oh look at the time..

[Green]

You're maybe not as daft as you look One8Seven1*, arguably the motorway will be busier earlier as people change their usual travel plans to avoid the closed period.