A28/A2 On Slip Road, Canterbury

The new slip road from the A28 Thannington Road to the A2 London bound will improve accessibility to the A2 and reduce unnecessary traffic on the Ring Road.

The A28 required slight modifications to enable the provision of traffic signals to access the new slip road.  Lay-bys were provided to mitigate the loss of on street parking.  Accommodation works were required for the Community Centre including construction of a BMX track to offset the effect of the land taken for the scheme.

For more information, please see scheme plan (PDF, 1.1MB)

The work was carried out by KCC’s term contractor and work started on the A28 element of the scheme in September 2010 and on the slip road itself in May 2011.

Current situation

The new slip road was completed and opened to traffic on 25 August 2011.

The traffic signals are linked into the adjacent signals serving the north facing slips and will be monitored to optimise the operation of this busy and constrained section of the A28.