One of Hampshire’s busiest traffic links will be closed tonight as a mulit-million pound road scheme finally comes to an end.

After months of motoring misery work on the Redbridge roundabout in Southampton is expected to be completed by the early hours of this morning.

It means motorists travelling to and from the city will no longer endure delays that have blighted their journeys since work started in October last year.

The work is part of a £2m Southampton City Council scheme to improve the roundabout, which is described as a key gateway into the city, to ensure it can carry high numbers of vehicles over the next ten to 15 years.

It carries up to 60,000 vehicles per day, equalling in excess of 20 million vehicles a year.

Improvements have been carried out in two phases and the final stage of work starts at 10pm tonight with the roundabout closed until 5.30am tomorrow.

Traffic from the M271 southbound will be diverted up the westbound slip to Rushington roundabout to enable temporary hatching to be removed on the eastbound slip.

A guardrail will also be installed on the nearside lane.

The project’s completion will come as a relief for drivers.

As previously reported, drivers were caught out by a sudden closure of the roundabout over the Easter weekend.