A three-day road closure starts today.
Part of Buxton Road will be closed for three days - meaning there will be no through route to Portland and Wyke Regis from Boot Hill.
The Buxton Road Bridge, which crosses over the Rodwell Trail, will be closed from 9am this morning until 5pm on Wednesday, March 29.
The closure is to allow emergency works to take place.
Drivers wanting to access Portland and the Wyke area from the town centre will be diverted to use Chickerell Road – Lanehouse Rocks Road – Portland Road, and vice versa.
David Clegg, Dorset Highways site agent for the work, said: “A sub-surface failure of the carriageway has caused a rippling of the road surface on the approach to the bridge, and we need to remove this defect before it becomes a danger to drivers.
“We know this is a busy road and we’ll try to open it as soon as we can but, unfortunately, there isn’t another way for us to carry out the work.”
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