Sunderland Diversions today.

The main junction of Holmeside/Fawcett Street/Borough Road & Burdon Road will be closed to all traffic all day on Sunday 24th March to remove the traffic islands at this junction as part of the Borough Road bus priority scheme and also to allow a gas main repair to go ahead.

This will avert a longer term closure on this junction.

On this date, bus services 39 and 42 that would normally operate into or out of Sunderland via Burdon Road or Toward Road will be diverted to operate via Park Road & Stockton Road to and from Park Lane Interchange, whilst services 9, 26A, 35B, 35C, 56, 135 & 136, operating between Wearmouth Bridge and Park Lane will operate via St Mary’s Way, High Street West and St Michaels Way in both directions.

Temporary stopping arrangements will be:

Park Lane bound - services 9, 26A, 35B, 35C & 56 will use first stop at side of The Londonderry.
135 will use the second stop just after the junction with Crowtree Road.
All services noted above will additionally observe the stop at the west end of High Street West to the west of St Michaels Church.

Wearmouth Bridge bound – services 9, 26A, 35B, 35C, 56 and 136 will use the temporary bus stop outside of The Dun Cow.

Following this work, the southernmost bus stop on Fawcett Street will be suspended to allow for the gas repair work to take place at this location. Services 39 & 42 will continue to serve their existing stop on Atheneum Street . This work is expected to take approximately 6 weeks.