About the Project
Project Delivery
The project will bring significant benefits to the local area:
Improved accessibility to the southern part of East Kilbride, an area with both existing and proposed new industrial, business and residential land uses.
- Improved infrastructure provision for direct access to employment areas in southern East Kilbride, minimising traffic impacts on residential areas.
- Enhanced access to buses and for cyclists and pedestrians, by upgrading the capacity and quality of the road network.
- Improved public transport reliability in the area by removing congestion and through traffic from existing routes.
- Reduced journey times and improve journey time reliability.
- Reduced congestion at peak times with associated carbon emission reduction.
- Employment for local people.
- Utilisation of local suppliers and business.
Key characteristics of the final Design include:
- Improved accessibility to the southern part of East Kilbride, an area with both existing and proposed new industrial, business and residential land uses.
- A footway 2m wide west side and 3m wide cycle route east side along Strathaven Road.
- Approximately 650m of proposed cycle route between Auldhouse Road and Langlands West Roundabout.
- One new roundabout at the Calderglen Country Park exit, which also provides a new access to the New Farm restaurant.
- Restructuring of five existing roundabouts.
- Two new pedestrian crossings.
- Seven bus laybys.
- Four SUDs detention basins/ponds.
- Two areas with new retaining structures.
Routes
The project is being delivered by Wills Bros, who were identified as the preferred bidder for the Greenhills Road/A726 Strathaven Road Corridor Improvements.
To find out more about Wills Bros Civil Engineering Limited visit www.willsbros.com
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Contact Details
24-hour contact number:
07717 451967
Address:
Wills Bros Civil Engineering Ltd
GSR Project Site Office
Greenhills Road (off Hurlawcrook Rbt)
East Kilbride
G75 0XS
GSR Project Site Office
Greenhills Road (off Hurlawcrook Rbt)
East Kilbride
G75 0XS