£3m package of work for 10-mile stretch of A64 near York

Highways England will carry out the work between Bramham and Grimston Bar. It is part of Highways England’s £80m maintenance improvements on Yorkshire’s roads this year.

Highways England project manager Chris Dunn said: “We are carrying out a series of improvements along the A64 between Bramham and Grimston Bar over the next few months which will provide better journeys for drivers and improve road safety.

“It also includes improvements to the footpaths and kerbing, and other associated work such as cabling and renewing the white lines will be carried out as part of the 2 schemes.”

Work started last night at Grimston Bar and will take place over a two-month period as part of a £700,000 scheme to resurface the roundabout and footpaths and upgrading the traffic signals.

Next week, sections of the A64 will be reconstructed and resurfaced between Bramham and Askham Bryan as part of a £2.5m scheme. The roundabout at Bramham will also be resurfaced and drainage work carried out between Bilbrough and Askham Bryan. This scheme will be carried out in phases and is expected be completed by the end of January.

Work will be carried out overnight, when traffic flows are lowest, between 8pm and 6am on weekdays, between 8pm on Friday and 9am on Saturday and 8pm on Saturday until 10am on Sunday.

Signed diversions will be in place.

Work is also due to start in November on improving road safety at the Barton Hill crossroads.