What’s happening now?

The majority of the work on West Hamilton Street has now finished.

Our contractor JH Civil Engineering needs to come back again soon. They still need to:

• do some work at the Aldi /Motherwell Shopping Centre crossing
• complete double yellow lines on the road. 

We are speaking to our contractor and about this and will let you know when this will be done.

We will make every effort to reduce disruption as much as possible, and will let you know if there needs to be another short road closure or lane closure to let them do this safely.

Public transport

The bus stops are now open and operating as normal.

If there are any changes to this when the contractor comes back we will let you know.

What will the project provide?

• new and improved shared paths for walking, wheeling and cycling
• improved pedestrian and cyclist road crossings

What's been done?

The work has been done in phases with the earlier work being done on the section closest to Hamilton Road, then moved closer to ASDA.

• widened existing paths for shared use - (to Aldi)
• improved crossing arrangements for pedestrians and cyclists (ASDA crossing still to be done)
• repaired and resurfaced the bus laybys
• resurfaced the road

What's still left to do?

When JH Civil Engineering returns in January, they will finish the work and widen the footpath from Aldi to Watson Street and the crossing to Asda.

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What we plan to do next

The work we have done is the first part of a planned route from Motherwell Rail Station to Motherwell Civic Centre.

We have designs and depending on funding, we hope to appoint a contractor to carry out work on the route between Asda and Motherwell Civic Centre this year.

This will involve:

• providing shared use paths
• improvements to pedestrian and cyclist crossings
• changes to the junction of Watsonville Park, Oakfield Road and Cairns Street

The work proposed for West Hamilton Street to the Civic Centre is part of wider walking, wheeling and cycling route improvements. We have appointed a company to carry out design work for this.

It will link to planned shared-use paths into Ravenscraig from Windmillhill Street and Airbles Road as part of the Motherwell to Ravenscraig City Deal project.

What we hope to do in Motherwell

This work is part of a wider scheme for Motherwell where we are working to improve walking, wheeling and cycling routes between:

• Motherwell rail station
• Motherwell town centre
• Strathclyde Country Park
• Ravenscraig

We have funding from SPT, Scottish Government Place Based Investment Programme, UK Shared Prosperity Fund and Transport Scotland to carry out design work and deliver the first phase of the project.

What’s happening next?

We plan to do more design work for active travel routes on Bellshill Road, Merry Street and Hamilton Road.

Depending on funding, also hope to start work on the Hope Street, Muir Street and Pollock Street and Bellshill Road routes in 2025.

Muir Street to Merry Street are part of these proposals.

What we have already done

At the start of 2023, we completed work on the first phase of the wider Motherwell Station active travel project.

This resulted in us constructing a shared-use walking, cycling and wheeling path from Motherwell Rail Station to Braidhurst Industrial Estate.

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Other work we have done

In November 2021 we did work to widen the path from Merry Street at the Woodcutter pub, past the Aquatec Centre to the pedestrian crossing on Hope Street.

In 2020 we completed walking and cycling route improvements in Strathclyde Park and put up new signs between Strathclyde Park and Motherwell Rail Station.

What else are we doing in the area?

We’re working in partnership with Ravenscraig Limited to create new routes for cycling, walking and wheeling into and through Ravenscraig. The new routes will make it easier to get to neighbouring communities and improve links to facilities in Ravenscraig.