Hope Street - temporary road closure

On Saturday 10 May there will be a temporary road closure in Motherwell Town Centre and diversions will be in place.

This is due to work at the roundabout connecting Muir Street to Hope Street.

The road will be closed between 8:00pm on Saturday evening and 8:00am on Sunday morning.

Vehicles going to/from Bellshill, Forgewood and North Motherwell via Motherwell town centre will be most affected.

The maps below will give you the information you need to know about the temporary road closure.

West Hamilton Street work

The work on West Hamilton Street is nearly finished. Our contractor JH Civil Engineering will install a new crossing between Aldi and Asda in March.  

Traffic and pedestrian management will be in place to make sure the work is done safely. 

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

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Asda to Civic Centre work

We also have a contractor doing work on the route between Asda and Motherwell Civic Centre.

This will involve:

• providing shared use paths
• providing dropped kerbs
• changes to the junction of Watsonville Park, Oakfield Road and Cairns Street

Work started on this part of the route on 13 January 2025 and will last for eight weeks. We will make every effort to reduce disruption during the work as much as possible. 

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.