This week's A338 Spur Road closures and restrictions are: 

Daytime

From 6am to 8pm every day: contraflow on the northbound carriageway, with get-in-lane restrictions in the 600yd stretch before Blackwater Junction, and traffic merging in turn at the Ashley Heath end of the southbound carriageway.

Evening

The soutbound carriageway will be closed between Ashley Heath Roundabout and Cooper Dean tonight between 8pm and 6am, with traffic directed to divert via Ferndown.

Matchams Lane will be open but is too small to use as a diversion route.

Dorset County Council said the closures were necessary to add an access point to the works area, clear ditches and remove vegetation at Blackwater.

The road will then be closed northbound between 8pm and 6am on Monday and Tuesday the following week, October 5 and 6.

These closures will allow ditch and vegetation clearance to take place.

See all our coverage of the A338 Spur Road rebuild at bournemouthecho.co.uk/a338

There are also bus replacement services running between Poole, Bournemouth and Wareham. 

On Saturday, buses will replace trains between Poole and Wareham.

On Sunday, buses will replace trains between Bournemouth and Wareham.