PEOPLE and businesses are preparing themselves for more disruption from roadworks in Worcester as the last phase of works to improve bus travel and reliability are finalised.

Over the next eight months there will be a series of road closures in Tudor Way, Broadway Grove, Grove Crescent and Bromyard Road.

This has sparked concerns about traffic congestion, where buses will stop for passengers, the impact the roadworks will have on businesses and how the emergency services will get to incidents.

Geoffrey Eades, aged 71, of Harrington Road, Dines Green, Worcester, said: “It’s going to cause mayhem. If they’re closing roads off for seven or eight months it’s going to be difficult.

“If there’s an accident in Oldbury Road at the junction with Comer Road it’s going to seal off Dines Green.”

Dan Taylor, co-owner of A44 Tyre Shop, Bromyard Road, said: “This will affect us massively. It’s going to cause us problems but we have no way around it.

“The shame of it is the whole situation is not going to benefit anyone when it’s all done.”

The work which forms part of the £3.2 million Bromyard Road rapid transit corridor scheme was due to start today but a spokesman for Worcester-shire County Council said it has been postponed.

She said: “We’re not sure when it’s going to start and we’re not sure what the work plan is so we’re not sure which parts are going to be closed at which time.”

We previously reported in your Worcester News how a section of Bromyard Road will be widened up to the junction of Broadway Grove to create a bus lane of about 100 metres going in to the city centre.

Where the bus lane starts depends on where the entrance is located to the new housing estate at Earl’s Court Farm which was recently approved by the city council’s planners.

Plans to extend the bus lane in Tybridge Street were scrapped from the scheme which caused disruption to motorists and people during last summer while junctions and crossings were upgraded.

Proposals to remove all parked cars from Brom-yard Road into side streets were abandoned following vociferous opposition from many people and businesses in St John’s, as well as the city’s MP Robin Walker.