Rolling road closure planned for the Cardiff 10K

With thousands of runners expected to pound the streets of the capital on Sunday, September 1^st competing in the Cardiff 10K, a rolling road closures will be put in place to facilitate the event.

Road closures

To ensure that the set-up of the event can take place, the Civic Centre will be closed from 7am on Saturday August 31^st until 6pm on Sunday September 1^st.

This will include King Edward VII Avenue, Corbett Road, Museum Avenue, City Hall Road, College Road and Gorsedd Gardens Road.

On Sunday September 1^st, there will be a series of rolling road closures implemented along the route from 9am until 1pm. This includes:

•  North Road, from the junction with Colum Road to the junction with Boulevard de Nantes – Access to Blackweir via Park Place/Corbett Road and access to Queen Anne Square will be managed via Colum Road/Corbett Road and exiting will be via Corbett Road onto Colum Road
• North Road south of the junction with Boulevard de Nantes to the junction with the A1461
• The A1461 from the junction with North Road to the junction with Kingsway
• Kingsway from the junction with the A1461 to the junction with Duke Street
• Duke Street and Castle Street in their entirety
• Cowbridge Road East from the junction with Castle Street to the junction with Cathedral Road
• Boulevard de Nantes from the junction with Park Place/Stuttgart’s Strasse through to the junction with North Road
• The Friary and Friary Gardens, Westgate Street, Wood Street, Golate, Guildhall Place, Quay Street, Central Square, Scott Road, Havelock Street and Park Street
• St Mary Street from the junction with Mill Lane through to Guildhall Place
• High Street from its junction with Castle Street to the junction with Guildhall Place
• Tudor Street from the junction with Clare Road
• Fitzhamon Embankment, Despenser Street, Despenser Lane, Despenser Place, Plantaganet Street, Beauchamp Street, Clare Street, Lower Cathedral Road, Brook Street, Mark Street, Green Street and Coldstream Terrace
• Cowbridge Road East from the junction with Cathedral Road to the junction with Neville Street/Wellington Street
• Neville Street from the junction with Cowbridge Road East to the junction with Lower Cathedral Road
• Wellington Street from the junction with Leckwith Road (inbound towards the city centre)
• Cowbridge Road East from the junction with Kings Road
• Cathedral Road from the junction with Cowbridge Road East to the junction with Penhill Road
• All side roads that exit on to Cathedral Road
• Hamilton Street, Talbot Street, Sophia Close, Sophia Walk, Spine Road in Sophia Gardens, Plasturton Place, Dyfrig Street, Kyveilog Street, Sneyd Street, Dogo Street, Berthwin Street, Teilo Street, Gileston Road, Meldwin Street, Fairleigh Road, Fields Park Road, Denbigh Street, Fairleigh Court and Heol Wilf Wooller
• Penhill Road from the junction with Llandaff/Cardiff Road (inbound only)
• A lane closure will also be in place on Western Avenue from Excelsior Road to the junction with Mill Lane.

NOTE: the banned right turn from Colum Road into Corbett Road will be revoked to facilitate access to Queen Anne Square only. This will be controlled by traffic management stewards.

Trains

Transport for Wales is advising their customers that engineering works on the Rhymney and Coryton lines will close the line to trains on Saturday 31 August and Sunday 1 September, all day.

A rail replacement service is in operation between Cardiff Central and Rhymney.

Ticket acceptance will be in place with Cardiff Bus between Cardiff city centre and Coryton on Saturday. There will be no Coryton service on Sunday, as usual.