WORK continues to improve traffic flows in Kendal.

This week, work focuses on the bus station on Blackhall Road.

The station has been temporarily closed and buses are operating from the lay-by opposite.

A new pelican crossing has been installed to allow passengers to cross to and from the lay-by.

When the new traffic system is introduced later in April the flow of buses through the station will be reversed - entering from the southern side and exiting towards Sandes Avenue.

Once building work at the station and on Blackhall Road is finished, new shelters, information points, seats, bike stands, signs and litter bins will be installed.

From Monday, work will also begin on the lower section of Blackhall Road which will be closed between Stramongate and New Road to allow construction of new junctions at either end.

Traffic will be diverted from Blackhall Road to Stramongate and then onto New Road.

The current work is part of a five-year traffic plan to ease the town's congestion problems which will ultimately see parts of Highgate and Stricklandgate pedestrianised between Lowther Street and Library Road.