Botley Road Bridge repairs 2024: intermittent river closure
Published 26 February 2024
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When
Friday 1 March to Thursday 28 March 2024.
Where
Osney reach, Botley Road Bridge, East Street.
Details
Essential repairs are to be undertaken on the Botley Road Bridge, and the construction of an accommodation bridge to take the mains water supply line into the city of Oxford.
These works require a scaffolding bridge, and encapsulation of the structure for operational safety, and safety of river users.
These works will require the temporary closures of the navigation for a four-week period from 1st March 2024.
During the period of works additional user signage will be posted on the lock side at Osney, Godstow and Isis Lock on the Oxford Canal, up and downstream of the river Closure.
Additionally, banksmen will be advising boaters of temporary closures during the lifting of materials over the river. Masters are requested to obey instructions given by the contractor’s banksmen.
The exact days when periodic, short-term closure will occur with be posted at the three closest locks.
Masters are responsible for the craft and crews’ safety at all times, and should familiarise their crew with the closure, when navigating within the Osney reach.
Byelaws
Nothing contained in these directions shall supersede those parts of the Thames Navigation Licensing and General Byelaws 1993 and the UK Merchant Shipping (Distress Signals and Prevention of Collisions) Regulations 1996 as may be relevant. Particular attention should be paid to byelaws 24-42 of the Thames Navigation Licensing and General Byelaws 1993, Steering Sailing and Speed.
And Notice is hereby given, that it is provided by Byelaw 52 of the Thames Navigation Licensing and General Byelaws 1993 that:
The master of any vessel shall except in an emergency not pass any boat-race regatta public procession or gathering for the launch of a vessel or any other event or function which may cause a crowd to assemble on or by the river nor station his vessel thereon in such a manner as would risk obstructing impeding or interfering with such boat-race regatta procession launching event or function or endangering the safety of persons assembling on the river or preventing or interfering with the maintenance of order thereon.
The maximum penalty for breach of the Byelaws is £1,000.
Read our Thames Navigation Licensing and General Byelaws 1993.