Work underway this weekend on new £192M A556 road

Work on the new £192M A556 Knutsford to Bowdon dual carriageway will begin this weekend, with the opening of its first bridge.

Work to connect sections of the new £192M 556 Knutsford to Bowdon dual carriageway, between the M6 and M56 in Cheshire, will get underway in earnest at the weekend with the opening of its first bridge.

The route of the new road will form a link between junction 19 of the M6 at Knutsford and junction 7 of the M56 at Bowdon, has been underway for quite some time, revealed yesterday as Highways England release new aerial pictures of the area.

Roads which cross the route of the new dual carriageway which is being built have stayed open, which means it has yet to be connected from end to end. Work to move these roads onto bridges over the new road is now underway.

The A50 from Mere, Chapel Lane from Bucklow Hill and Millington Lane – all with junctions along the existing A556 – are all currently running across the path of the new A556 with the route of the new road being excavated on either side of them. Each of the roads will be realigned and moved onto newly-built bridges crossing the new dual carriageway – with the A50 work due for completion by Tuesday (30 August) during a weekend of overnight closures.

Highways England Project Manager Paul Hampson said: “We’ve worked hard to keep open roads which cross the path of the new A556. This has included constructing the new bridges parallel to the A50, Chapel Lane and Millington Lane so we can simply re-align each road when the time came.

“This weekend’s work is an important milestone ensuring we can now start to connect the different sections of the new A556 and realign the A50 over the new bridge with the minimum of fuss.

“We appreciate that having temporary traffic lights and full overnight closures of the A50 will create some inconvenience and we’d like to thank local people and other road users for their continued patience and support as we work to complete this important new link between the M56 and M6.”

 

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