Installation of the new signalised junction layout on Weymouth Avenue in Dorchester near Maumbury Rings has been completed.

Maumbury Cross is a busy four-way junction used by many people including students, parents and carers with children, residents of a nearby care home, and bus users, as well as visitors to the hospital, market, leisure centre and skate park.

The new junction now has more signal-controlled pedestrian crossing points, wider footways and new signal equipment. This provides a safer and more pleasant experience for pedestrians.

New layout 

The new junction layout has included the installation of new signal equipment while also:

• providing controlled pedestrian crossing points on Maumbury Road eastern arm, Maumbury Road western arm and on Weymouth Avenue northern arm
• providing some widened and levelled footways, wherever possible, to improve the pedestrian environment
• installing a section of cycleway and advanced stop line on the uphill section of Maumbury Road to help cyclists through the junction
• relocating the one existing controlled crossing to provide a better footway environment and more waiting space for people crossing the road
• installing a new southbound bus shelter, with footway resurfacing and tree root protection

Take a look at the new junction layout.