If only the County Council had mended London Road when its surface first broke up, we wouldn’t be facing such horrendous disruption now. Here is its latest bulletin:

Work is to start on Phase 2 of the London Road scheme on Monday 5 January 2015 and will include resurfacing from the junction with Wharton Road to the junction with Northfield Road. This will involve a full reconstruction of the westbound bus lane, replacing damaged and broken kerbing and drainage improvements.

The first section of the maintenance work will start on the south side of London Road at Wharton Road. This section of work will be controlled by two-way temporary traffic signals.
In order to keep congestion to a minimum, the temporary traffic signals will be manually controlled from 7am to 7pm, Monday to Friday, 7am to 5.30pm on Saturdays and 9am to 5.30pm on Sundays.
The first phase is now expected to be completed by mid-January 2015 and so will overlap with phase 2. This is due to the need to relocate some underground services from communication and utility companies. However, starting on the original intended start date of January 2015 means that the much needed work gets done sooner.