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Rugby Western Relief Road Video

This video contains project managers Brian Follett and Mark Woodhouse explaining the actions that Warwickshire County Council and Carillion took to reduce the impact on Rugby town when constructing the Rugby Western Relief Road. Subtitles - English, but can be translated into other languages. Download full video transcript (PDF - 21 KB) How to use YouTube video player

The construction of Rugby Western Relief Road has posed a number of problems, including the movement of material from the southern end of the job to the north - roughly 30,000 cubic metres of earth. It was planned that this would go through the centre of Rugby. However this would have had a huge impact on the town and may have lengthened the project by another year. Therefore, Carillion, the contractors, created a route through the actual line of the relief road to avoid impact on the centre of Rugby. This avoided 7,500 lorry journeys through Rugby. Carillion put in a temporary bridge in order to cross the river Sow. They also changed the programme of the work to build a roundabout sooner. The lorries now take the line of the Rugby Western Relief Road, so it doesn't have any impact on the surrounding roads.