Kier Group Plc

A417

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12 People

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Open

About the event

Please email all booking enquiries to sustainability@kier.co.uk

Educational Visits:
Visits limited to educational institutions only.

Date: 19th March 2025
Time: 10am – 2pm

The A417 provides an important route between Gloucester, Cheltenham and Swindon

Connects the West Midlands and the north to the south of England, via the M5 and M4.

90% of the A417 route is dual carriageway, there is one section that isn’t – the Missing Link.

c.37,000 vehicles per day climb Crickley Hill (10% gradient), with approx. 10% being HGVs.

Congestion is frequent at Air Balloon and Cowley roundabouts, collisions and breakdowns are a common occurrence

Rat running through local villages is a further safety issue

We plan to build 3.4 miles (5.5km) of new dual carriageway, which will:

improve road safety,
reduce congestion, and
improve connectivity for road users and local communities
Located entirely within the Cotswolds AONB, adjacent to SSSIs, Crickley Hill Country Park, Ancient woodland and scheduled monuments

Environmental challenges understood early and led to the scheme vision of a ‘landscape-led highway scheme’.

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