WORKS to install new traffic lights and move a pedestrian crossing near the entrance to Vivary Park have been completed.

Somerset Council replaced the traffic lights and the pedestrian crossing on Taunton’s Upper High Street.

Works provided the area with “new state-of-the-art traffic signals" and the crossing was aligned with the park’s entrance.

The works have been completed just in time for Taunton Flower Show. (Image: Newsquest)

Travel Somerset said: “Thank you for your patience while we carried out this scheme which is a key part of our active travel provision between the train station and the town centre.

“It includes a new Toucan crossing for cyclists and pedestrians and replacement traffic signals, as well as a complete resurfacing of the road in the immediate area.”

A photo taken before the works started (Somerset Council)This is how the crossing looked before the works started. (Image: Somerset Council)

The pedestrian crossing which connects High Street with the north entrance to Vivary Park has been improved with new traffic signals and realigned markings to position it more directly with the park entrance.

Work started on Monday, May 13, and were completed “on budget and on time”, Somerset Council said, before Taunton Flower Show.

Somerset West and Taunton Council was awarded more than £13.9m from the government’s future high streets fund in December 2020, to be used to support regeneration projects throughout the town centre.