During Sunday 14 July 2013, Sunderland City Council will need to temporally close the southern end of Fawcett Street and the west end of Borough Road to facilitate essential roadworks associated with the Borough Road highways improvements scheme.

Last Updated : 28 June 2013 12:10

On this occasion, Borough Road will be closed between Back Fawcett Street (west side) and John Street, and Fawcett Street will also be closed at its southern end, as far as Athenaeum Street. This closure is to allow for highways surfacing and road marking works.

This closure is scheduled to be in place during Sunday 14 July 2013, between approximately 0800 - 1800.

During the periods of this road closure, Stagecoach buses will be diverted as follows:

Southbound Services 3, 4, 13, 16 and 23 will be diverted from Wearmouth Bridge to operate via St.Mary’s Way and High Street West. These services will temporarily observe the westbound bus stops outside Marks and Spencer’s and at Londonderry Hotel, and will be unable to observe their normal bus stops on John Street, Holmeside or Green Terrace.

Northbound Services 3, 4, 13, 16 and 23 will be diverted from Priestman Roundabout/ St.Michael’s Way to operate via High Street West and St.Mary’s Way to Wearmouth Bridge. These services will temporarily observe the eastbound bus stop opposite Londonderry Hotel, and will be unable to observe their normal bus stops on Green Terrace, Vine Place, or Fawcett Street.

Westbound Service 5A will be diverted from West Lawrence Street via Sans Street, West Wear Street, St.Mary’s Way and High Street West. This service will temporarily observe the westbound bus stops outside Marks and Spencer’s and at Londonderry Hotel, and will be unable to observe its normal bus stops on Borough Road, Holmeside or Green Terrace.

Eastbound Service 5A will be diverted from St.Michael’s Way to operate via High Street West, St.Mary’s Way, West Wear Street to High Street East. These services will temporarily observe the eastbound bus stop opposite Londonderry Hotel, and will be unable to observe their normal bus stops on Green Terrace, Vine Place, or Fawcett Street.

Westbound Services 10 and 11 will be diverted from Tatham Street via Borough Road (east side), Sans Street, West Wear Street, St.Mary’s Way and High Street West. These services will temporarily observe the westbound bus stops outside Marks and Spencer’s and at Londonderry Hotel, and will be unable to observe their normal bus stops on Borough Road, Holmeside or Green Terrace.

Eastbound Services 10 and 11 will be diverted from St.Michael’s Way to operate via High Street West, St.Mary’s Way, West Wear Street, Sans Street and Borough Road (east side) to Tatham Street. These services will temporarily observe the eastbound bus stop opposite Londonderry Hotel, and will be unable to observe their normal bus stops on Green Terrace, Vine Place, Fawcett Street or Athenaeum Street.

Service 20 will be diverted from St.Michael’s Way to operate via High Street West (taking layover near the Empire), St.Mary’s Way to Wearmouth Bridge Roundabout, then St.Mary’s Way, High Street West, then normal route to Pennywell. Buses will temporarily observe the eastbound bus stop opposite Londonderry Hotel, and will be unable to observe their normal bus stops on Vine Place or Fawcett Street.

Northbound Services E1, E2, E6 will be diverted from Priestman Roundabout via St.Michael’s Way, High Street West and St.Mary’s Way to Wearmouth Bridge. These services will temporarily observe the eastbound bus stop opposite Londonderry Hotel, and will be unable to observe their normal bus stops on Fawcett Street.

Southbound Services E1, E2, E6 will be unaffected by this closure on Sunday 14 July.

Clearly, whilst we will be endeavouring to operate all services in accordance with their published timetables, as well as continuing to liaise with our colleagues at Sunderland City Council to mitigate any problems, due to the increased mileage required to operate via the diversionary route, there is the potential that some trips may be subject to localised delays.

Stagecoach would like to apologise for any inconvenience these highways works by Sunderland City Council may cause, and we remain grateful for customers’ patience and understanding.

Hopefully after this the roads are back to normal. those temp traffic lights, hate them so much!