Kirkstone Pass will reopen for the Easter holidays after the latest phase of work has been completed.
A multi-million-pound project to improve the road’s safety is underway.
So far, work to erect new wooden-clad safety barriers, improve drainage and create new gullies and catch pits to catch scree washed off the fells has been completed.
Kirkstone Pass climbs to an altitude of nearly 1,500ft. One of the highest roads in the Lake District, it often suffers the impacts of severe weather.
The Department for Transport Safer Roads Project on Kirkstone Pass, managed by Westmorland and Furness Council, includes building new drainage and culverts, resurfacing, new lay-bys and signs, all designed to make the pass safer and better protected from flooding and other weather-related impacts, so less prone to closures in the future.
A further closure of Kirkstone Pass will be required after Easter to complete the work.
Heavy snowfall in December followed by the severe storms Isha and Jocelyn in January have meant some delays to planned work on the route, which was closed to all vehicles during the worst of the winter weather.
The new two-week closure has been scheduled between April 16 and April, to minimise the impact on tourism businesses in one of the most popular areas of the Lake District.
The wooden barriers are the first of their type on a major road in Cumbria.
