A Nottinghamshire road has closed until early next year so work can continue on a new £40m relief route designed to ease congestion in Gedling Village.
From 7am to 6pm Lambley Lane is now shut until February 2021.
The daytime closure is needed so 640,000 tonnes of earthworks can be moved across Lambley Lane.
Businesses along the route remain open, however, with access still for companies and residents.
But traffic is diverting via Mapperley Top with the closure needed so work can continue on the Gedling Access Road (GAR).
A Nottinghamshire County Council document revealed Lambley Lane will later be fully closed for three months.
This will allow for construction work and drainage storage tanks to be installed.
When built, the 3.8km, single carriageway stretch will link the A612 Trent Valley Road and Nottingham Road to Mapperley Plains.
The road will run parallel with the A6211 Arnold Lane and through the centre of the old Gedling Colliery site to serve the vast, £140m Chase Farm housing estate.
It will cross several fields, Glebe Farm and a section of walled garden at Gedling House and part of the Carlton-le-Willows Academy grounds.
The £40.8m road has been designed to take pressure off a number of local routes and has been under discussion for 50 years.
A number of other road closures will be in place while construction work continues.
But these may be subject to change, the council has said.
New junctions will be created with provision for cycle lanes.
