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Due to poor weather conditions forecast for the rest of the week, work on the Midland Highway roundabout at Kennedys Road will not begin on May 1.
Taronga Road will remain closed until work begins.
A Department of Transport alert notes the work will be delayed for at least a week, depending on the weather.
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Kennedys Road will be closed at the Midland Highway for 10 weeks to continue building a new roundabout, one of several intersection upgrades across the city.
Regional Roads Victoria is beginning work on the project on Friday, May 1, which is intending to create safer access to Kennedys Road and Taronga Road from the highway.
Any Kennedys Road traffic will need to use Gillies Road to enter and exit until work is complete.
A speed limit reduction will be in place during the works.
A roundabout at Gillies Road and Kennedys Road has also been completed, with funding from the state government and council, to improve safety in the area.
Separately, a new roundabout at the intersection of Cuthberts Road and the unsealed Whites Road in Cardigan has gone out to tender.
The intersection was chosen to receive $1.56 million in federal Black Spot improvement funding in July.
Traffic volume is increasing in the area as more housing developments are built and the population grows, and the intersection has been the site of several dangerous accidents in the past few years.
These include a fatality in 2015, where a motorcyclist died after colliding with a car.
A cyclist was also left with severe life-changing injuries after he was struck in 2017.
City of Ballarat infrastructure and environment director Terry Demeo said in a statement tenders close on May 13.
"Construction is due to start in June and will take about eight weeks," he said.
A roundabout will also be built at Victoria Park, at the intersection of Cedar Drive and Poplar Avenue, with $426,000 in Black Spot funding.
A number of other roundabouts and intersections across town are being upgraded as part of the Keeping Ballarat Moving program.
A separate project to extend Soho Road North in the Ballarat West Employment Zone has also gone out to tender.
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