Resurfacing work is taking place on Drayton Road this week, with Oxfordshire County Council closing the road between Saxton Road and Preston Road from 22–29 September, 8 pm to 6 am each night.

On the night of 23 September, crews were planing off and resurfacing the stretch between Morland Gardens and Preston Road. The road planers with a fleet of muckaway lorries worked in sequence to remove the old surface and then fresh tarmac was laid and compacted by rollers.

During the closure, buses and other traffic have been finding alternative routes. I saw the X2 trying to make its way along Saxton Road to get round the closure.

The Drayton Road is the main route into Abingdon from the south and is cracked along this section.