Its all change in Walton Street

Traffic flow in Walton Street, Aylesbury, from the Exchange Street roundabout to the town centre, will be changing direction from Monday 29 September, as the £18.5 million Aylesbury Public Transport Hub and, in particular, bus station refurbishment project enters its latest stage.

Traffic in this stretch of Walton Street will be one-way, in the direction from the Great Western Street/Market Square junction towards the Exchange Street roundabout, down to the County Hall accesses.

Buses approaching this new-one-way system will access the bus station and new Super stops via Friarage Road and Great Western Street.

Extensive works have been carried out in Great Western Street, where new Super stops will be in operation for the Haydon Hill, Elmhurst and Bedgrove routes, and buses will revert to these and the bus station from their temporary stops on the 29th September. Information signs will be put up in both the bus station and Great Western Street, and passengers are reminded to check them regularly.

The area where Great Western Street, Market Square and Walton Street converge will be revamped as a 'shared space' for traffic and pedestrians, to tie in with the new bus station and travel information centre. The present taxi rank outside AVDC's offices will be resited in Walton Street. The disabled parking spaces and short stay parking outside the library will remain.

Val Letheren, Buckinghamshire's Cabinet Member for Transportation, said: "These changes will make all the difference to this part of Aylesbury town centre. It's always been our intention to make the new bus station an integral part of the town, and the measures we are putting in will also enhance the appearance of this area and make better use of the space available. We've endeavoured to put in a sympathetic design and used materials to complement the existing, old part of the Market Square, with a modern slant.

"Our engineers and contractors have worked hard on this project to carry out a complex refurbishment under difficult circumstances. We are now really starting to see the benefits of those efforts."

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