Roadworks near the Botley Interchange are still on course to be completed by Saturday.

Work began on the £250,000 project in May and was expected to last for eight weeks.

It has seen an extra lane created in West Way for traffic leaving Oxford and heading towards Botley.

Two of these lanes will be for traffic going towards the A40 and A420, while the other lane will be for traffic going straight ahead.

On the Oxford-bound road from Botley, drivers will only be allowed to turn left towards the Botley Interchange in the left lane and go straight ahead in the right lane.

No changes have been made to the bus lanes or to the park-and-ride lane.

The changes also mean that North Hinksey Lane West will become a two-way street.

County council spokesman Paul Smith said the work was “still on course to be completed by the end of the week”.

  • Oxfordshire County Council is currently carrying out ecological mitigation work, which includes moving a colony of grass snakes, before expanding the Thornhill Park-and-Ride car park by more than 500 spaces on land to the east. Construction work is expected to begin in October and be completed by May 2013.
  • The county council is due to begin work on turning the Kennington roundabout into a ‘hamburger’ as well as carrying out improvements to the Hinksey Hill junction. Work is due to start in the autumn and is expected to be completed by summer 2013.
  • Work on Frideswide Square, which will see a roundabout built outside Oxford Station and two mini roundabouts built, is expected to begin early next year.