Creating a safer and more attractive environment in the cathedral city.
Our impact
4km
The length of the works
150
New gully connections
350m
Of mainline drainage installed
The improvements were intended to create a safer and more attractive environment.
A cleaner, greener city
Visitors travelling to York from the southwest will inevitably find themselves travelling along Tadcaster Road – one of the busiest roads in the cathedral city.
Jackson was proud to be awarded this £6m contract from York City Council to carry out important upgrade works, designed to support York’s transport infrastructure and ensure the thoroughfare would be maintenance-free for the next decade.
The improvements were also intended to create a safer and more attractive environment, encouraging more people to walk, cycle and use the bus in York as part of a cleaner, greener city.
Balancing act: Vehicle movements are restricted to protect wildlife including over-wintering as well as nesting birds.
The scheme involved significant drainage upgrades.
Simultaneous schemes
Along a 4.5km stretch, the work involved multiple enhancements to the road, improving surfacing, streetlighting, lay-bys and bus stops, adding pedestrian crossings and widening footpaths.
At the same time, works to upgrade the drainage along areas at either end of the scheme were required.
Both schemes were delivered simultaneously, so that disruption to residents, businesses, and the users of Tadcaster Road could be minimised and overall costs reduced.
Helping out local groups
Tadcaster Road runs alongside York Racecourse, the third biggest racecourse in Britain, and around race days there was an imperative to remove all traffic measures and stand down our teams to ensure racegoers could get to events unencumbered.
Not wanting to waste these ‘stand-down’ days, Jackson redirected its people to local good causes.
In one instance, the team spent a morning laying and compressing several hundred metres of gravel along sections of an allotment path located nearby.
Other initiatives, saw them carry out repairs on potholes and steps at the York R.I Rugby Club and erect fencing at a local beauty spot Chapman’s Pond.
On stand-down days the team carried out jobs for local good causes.
