Carmageddon time in Harlow as Fifth Avenue set to be closed this weekend
News / Mon 7th Apr 2025 at 12:00pm
ON behalf of Essex County Council, Bouygues UK Ltd are undertaking essential works on Fifth Avenue – Zelenskyy Avenue A1019 and Gladwin Way as part of the Harlow & Gilston Garden Town Sustainable Transport Corridor project.
As a result of these works, the following closures will be taking place:
Fifth Avenue – Zelenskyy Avenue A1019 will be closed in both directions between Burnt Mill Roundabout and Sainsbury’s Roundabout.
This closure will begin at 8pm on Friday 11 April, with Fifth Avenue – Zelenskyy Avenue reopening in full by 5am on Monday 14 April.
Gladwin Way will be closed at the junction of Fifth Avenue – Zelenskyy Avenue A1019, from 8pm on Friday 11 April for a period of up to four weeks.
The road closure on Fifth Avenue – Zelenskyy Avenue A1019 is required to carry out drainage installation and surfacing works on both the northbound and southbound carriageways, with a full closure in both directions needed to ensure both the safety of the public and workforce.
The road closure on Gladwin Way is required to carry out the remodelling of the junction and the footpath. Please note that these works are weather dependent, and dates may change accordingly.
Due to open excavations across the carriageway, there will be no access for vehicles, aside from the emergency services.
However, there will be clearly signed diversion routes during these works, with a map detailing the closure location and diversion routes detailed below.
A certain amount of inconvenience is inevitable with work of this type, and Essex County Council and the contractors greatly appreciate your patience during the works.
The work will also unavoidably create some noise but the aim is to keep particularly noisy operations before 22:00 hours each evening.
For further information, updates relating to this closure, and to check on any future closures and works taking place during the project, please refer to the following:
Website – www.essexhighways.org/harlow-sustainable-transport-corridors
Email – [email protected]
Phone – 0345 603 7631
Mazzy
2025-04-07 15:37:44
How will the buses get to the station? No doubt some really long detour.
Rob
2025-04-07 16:31:47
Yet more disruption for work no one needs….or wants.
Worker Baz
2025-04-07 17:05:02
Can't do anything in this town without someone having a moan. Fix the potholes, don't close the road, bring back Marks, too much traffic. Just stay at home this weekend while we do some work
Ted
2025-04-07 17:22:22
Worker Baz . What do you mean this weekend , some of it is for a month.
Steve
2025-04-07 17:31:59
The volume of traffic in Harlow, or any town for that matter means these roadworks won't make any difference whatsoever. It just means that traffic will get to the usual pinch points quicker. When parts of the M25 went from 3 to 4 lanes it made no difference to the problems. It's all about the volume of traffic, not the roads.
Keith
2025-04-07 19:40:42
Can someone tell me what all this work is for ?
Florence
2025-04-07 23:09:14
Can somebody tell me when this lethargical work progress come to an end , because people are suffering for the last 13 months
Stuart
2025-04-08 07:17:23
Florence - you could just read the massive signs that are at the road works. Planned completion is autumn. Ted - the only bit that's closed for longer than the weekend is the Gladwin Way junction which is hardly the end of the world! Keith - the work is preparation for HGGT.
Kim
2025-04-08 07:28:27
None of this is going to make a heap of difference. We will still have the same volume of traffic, and with thousands more houses being built, and thousands more people. It will only get worse. Overloading towns,,, of course it will get worse.
Davie
2025-04-08 07:37:17
Sustainable transport corridor means buses are less delayed - yippee, So the improved bus lanes will bring hordes of visitors to the run down centre! The downside is that the mostly empty bus lanes will squeeze the flow of ordinary traffic into a single lane, pretty much as we are seeing currently. So will it all be worth it? On another note, work on Market Square is at a complete standstill. plus other pedestrian areas where work is not existent or moving at a snails pace. Just what is happening to our Town? and when will it all be finished?
Me
2025-04-08 10:23:50
Lazy car drivers will have to Grid locked in Harlow a bit longer more cycling tracks zebra light crossing pints please drive down not know the new highway code.
Thomas Abbott
2025-04-08 12:50:03
I notice the concil have built a couple off council only tenant blocks in harlowi bet most off them will be given to help other councils in Essex not harlow
ratboy
2025-04-08 13:22:22
HGGT sustainable transport corridor is greenwash waffle for a road that will be just as polluting as any other.Get your daily dose of airborne pollutants and hypertension from sitting in all that heavy traffic every day.Honestly there are better ways of transport for shorter distances that may alleviate the effects of so called "Karmageddon".My other car is a cycle.
Seamus
2025-04-08 14:43:35
On the plus side, it starts on the second week holiday of the Easter half term so if you are driving from one side of Harlow to the other, it will pass away half a day and the kids in the car can play "how many men in hi vis jackets does it take to stand around doing nothing but claiming they are busy?" A rip roaring fun game for all the family.
Martyn
2025-04-08 15:17:41
They are forever messing about with the roads in Harlow but traffic doesn't improve. What is really needed is a second road link to the A414 on the Northwest side but so far, nothing! I live outside Harlow so for the next few weeks I'll be shopping in Hereford or Bishop's Stortford.
Ted
2025-04-08 16:20:42
Martin. If I lived outside Harlow I would never go in. And (me) what are you on about?
David Thompson
2025-04-08 18:42:01
We have not bothered with visiting the stores in Harlow's since the road works started, we go to borehamwood or st albans, they are both better than cold and windy Harlow.
John
2025-04-09 08:01:50
If it's shut off between them , two roundabouts does that mean sainsbury's will be shut
Stuart J
2025-04-09 11:31:17
It’s only shut from the Sainsburys roundabout going north. The slip road into Sainsburys is still open together with the access road to the adjacent housing estate.
Theonehandeddriver
2025-04-09 12:56:28
Simple solution lies on the 414 dual carriageway roundabout just outside Harlow's boundary & therefore requires Hertfordshire permission & funding. Build filter lanes for traffic turning left towards Ware & likewise from Pye Corner towards Harlow. Traffic flows freely without massive disruption. Build bus pull ins & put up a pedestrian bridge to replace the lights. Job done without massive disruption & cost
I’ll do that Billy
2025-04-09 13:11:49
David Thompson, get you, a right clever Dickie, hard to believe it doesn’t also get ‘cold and windy’ in the celestial BW and St Albs from time to time!. Guess what mate, you’re not missed. Martyn, all the way to Hereford for a bit of shopping!, blimey.
Stuart
2025-04-09 15:05:51
Theonehandeddriver - that is literally what the plan is. That roundabout is due to go - suggest you have a look at the HGGT plans.
Nostradamus
2025-04-10 08:05:29
Those responsible for this plan have never widely published a clear and accessible description of the logic that underlies these plans. At least nothing that makes sense to the residents who have seen various plans that have failed over the last 30 years. A series of videos that show the computer modeling of traffic flows as the development over the future could and should have been produced. One suspects that because each development including the sustainable corridors has been a knee jerk reaction or pr exercise (especially in the light of what are hostile pressures from East Herts and Epping Councils and hggt property developers) that there is no logic beyond that which can be written on the back of an envelope containing contracts that put money in the pockets of property developers who fund both Conservative and Labour Parties and which will work to totally overload and gridlock Harlow. Why else should the whole project lack true transparency? Show us the modelling and the rationale and lets see if it holds water.
Arthur Pike
2025-04-10 10:35:29
Nostradamus thinks the whole project lacks transparency? Try looking at the Harlow & Gilston Garden Town website, everything is explained on there.
Bobbo
2025-04-12 08:49:07
Gotta be done & rightly so closing it at night times & weekends I’d rather it closed for weeks / months, just to get the job done rather than it drag on for years
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