MORE lengthy delays on Bournemouth's roads are to be expected from next week – this time lasting nearly a month. 

Glenferness Avenue will be closed from Talbot Roundabout to East Avenue from Monday, April 15 as BCP Council continues to build new cycle paths. 

Motorists and buses will have to divert via East Avenue and Talbot Avenue in both directions during the closure. 

Long delays are to be expected in the area, particularly during rush hour, along Talbot Avenue, Wallisdown Road and Wimborne Road. 

The road is expected to reopen again on May 10. 

BCP Council is to close Glenferness Avenue, leading to Bournemouth town centre, to build more cycle lanes. 

It’s also expected there will be a new parallel crossing, resurfacing work, drainage alternations, the removal of traffic islands and street lighting improvements.  

Parallel crossings have a cycling crossing area parallel to the zebra crossing area for pedestrians. 

Glenferness Avenue only reopened last December after months of being closed at the bridge while the council fitted two new bridge cycle and footpath lanes.  

Two four-metre-wide, 31-metre-long prefabricated bridges were installed in the autumn as part of plans to improve cycling and pedestrian access.  

With funding from south east Dorset’s Transforming Cities Fund, the work is part of the “sustainable travel route” linking Bournemouth town centre and Ferndown.