Announcing the early reopening of Wellington's M5 junction 26 and Chelston link road.

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00:00So here I am again at Junction 26. We're finally going to open the Link Road. The traffic management

00:07is going to be removed tonight. All the cones will be gone and the road will be reopened.

00:13The junction will be reopened and people will be able to get from Wellington to the motorway once

00:18again. Here with me is Tim Doyle from Heidelberg. Tell us about building this road. Well we took

00:26the opportunity Richard to go with environmental options wherever we could. Many of the environmental

00:32options are also the most efficient option so we're able to rubberise the existing concrete

00:37to avoid digging and disposing of that. The concrete pavement under the motorway junction had to be

00:45excavated because of height restrictions so that was crushed and put back in place and then we've

00:50topped it off with 15 000 tons of asphalt of a very environmentally friendly nature. I mean that's

00:57great to hear and I'm pleased to hear about the environmental credentials. I hear that it was a

01:021100 lorry journeys that didn't need to be made because of the rubberisation. What I'm worried about

01:09is the durability of the road surface. If it's environmental does that mean that it's a worse

01:14quality? No not at all. Things have moved on extensively over the last few years so that

01:21durability and environmental gains can both be achieved with the same materials

01:27and options and I think that's what we've captured here. That's fantastic and you can see the quality

01:33here is of the highest quality and I can't thank you guys enough and like I say working those weekends

01:39and working overnight to make sure that this is opened ahead of schedule, on budget, you know,

01:48it's just fantastic. Now get those cones out and let's open this up for tomorrow morning.

01:52Will do. Thank you very much. Thank you.