The following summary of planned new and ongoing roadworks over the coming week is correct as of Friday 28 August but could be subject to change due to weather conditions or unforeseen circumstances. (Info Supplied by Highways England)
All our work is carried out with the aim of causing as little disruption as possible. Drivers looking for roadworks information (such as overnight carriageway closures) for individual schemes should now visit www.trafficengland.com Some of our larger schemes have project pages giving other information. These can now be accessed from a dedicated regional page: https://highwaysengland.co.uk/regions/north-west
A full list of roadworks involving carriageway closures is also Tweeted each Monday via our regional Twitter feed @highwaysNWest.
Roadworks affect all journeys which is why it is important they are completed as quickly as possible. All our sites have strict safeguarding measures to prevent the spread of COVID19 and none of our sites are open to the public.
With the bank holiday upon us, Highways England has launched an I-spy game to help youngsters stave off the boredom of ‘are we there yet?’ holiday car journeys. The game encourages youngsters to look out for the flora and fauna now flourishing in verges along the country’s major A roads and motorways – with much of the biodiversity improvements delivered in the North West. More about the I-spy game here: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/flower-power-to-help-car-journeys-this-bank-holiday
M6 bridge painting junction 34 to junction 35
We’re carrying out 9pm to 5am overnight maintenance, including re-painting, on two bridges – Lane Ends and Colewood footbridges – between junction 34 and junction 35 of the M6 in an eight-week project which started on Tuesday 4 August. Both the northbound and southbound carriageways will be reduced to one lane including hard shoulder running in each direction at the location of each bridge during the overnight work. A 50mph speed limit will also be in place. No work will be taking place during the late summer bank holiday weekend (Friday 28 August to Tuesday 1 September).
M6 junction 36
A £7 million maintenance project along the A590 between Brettargh Holt junction and the M6 at junction 36 includes improvements at the motorway roundabout itself (including resurfacing and installing new bridge joints). The four month project starts on Friday (4 September) and involves traffic management – including closures – at the roundabout at times. Full details and a project leaflet are available on the project website at: www.highwaysengland.co.uk/programme/a590-maintenance-schemes/
M6 junction 36 to junction 44
Several months of round-the-clock work as part of the £1.5 million M6 Species Rich Grassland project to improve biodiversity along the motorway’s verges started last week – with occasional lane one closures along short stretches of the carriageway. Some slip road closures will be required in the autumn. This scheme particularly increases the variety of wildflowers, improving conditions to support bees and other pollinators. Work in August will focus in the verges along both the northbound and southbound carriageways between junction 36 and junction 38.
M6 junction 38 to 39
On 16 July we started a nine-week, £1.8 million project to resurface the whole of the northbound carriageway between Tebay services and junction 39 at Shap. The work includes the replacement of road markings, road studs and drainage gullies. As the work moves along the carriageway in phases, short sections will require round-the-clock lane closures and a 50mph speed limit. Some overnight slip road closures will also be needed when the work is passing Tebay services, junction 38 and junction 39. No work will be taking place over the bank holiday.
M6 junctions 36 to 43 and A66 and A595
A £3 million rolling programme of work to renew road markings and road studs along sections of the M6, A66 and A595 in Cumbria will last until September. The work is focusing on sections of the M6 between Kendal and Carlisle, the A66 west of Cockermouth and along the A595 between Distington and Thornhill. Some overnight – 8pm to 6am – lane or slip road closures and off-peak or use of temporary traffic lights will be used.
M55 junctions 1 to 3
Narrow lanes and a 50mph speed limit are now in place along a short stretch of the motorway where a new junction (junction 2) is being constructed as part of Lancashire County Council’s Preston Western Distributor road project. More information is available here: https://www.lancashire.gov.uk/council/strategies-policies-plans/roads-parking-and-travel/major-transport-schemes/preston-western-distributor/
M55 junction 4
As part of ongoing maintenance and repairs we’re carrying out overnight work to iron out lumps and bumps and carry out small-scale ‘patching’ resurfacing across parts of the motorway and major A road network. On Saturday and Sunday next week (5 and 6 September) – between 10pm and 5am each night – we’ll be working at junction 4 of the eastbound M55. The main carriageway will be closed between the slip roads during these times allowing us to operate a simple off-and-on diversion.
A585 Windy Harbour to Skippool improvement
Work to deliver a £150 million new bypass and junction improvements is now underway. Information on traffic management likely to affect road users’ journeys will be included in this bulletin. In the meantime, anyone interested in the project can visit the project webpage at https://highwaysengland.co.uk/projects/a585-windy-harbour-to-skippool/
Work next week is focusing along Garstang New Road (Fleetwood Road junction to A586 Garstang Road junction) between Tuesday and Friday (1 to 4 September) with temporary traffic lights or stop-go boards in place between 9.30am and 3.30pm.
A590 Brettargh Holt to M6 resurfacing
A major, £7 million maintenance project to reconstruct and resurface the dual carriageway A590 between junction 36 of the M6 and Brettargh Holt roundabout will start on Friday (4 September). Full details and a project leaflet are available on the project website at: www.highwaysengland.co.uk/programme/a590-maintenance-schemes/
A590 Ulverston resurfacing
Work to resurface a mile of the carriageway – between Quebec Street and Princes Street, and Queen Street junctions – starts on Monday 7 September. All the work, which is expected to take five weeks, will be done overnight with the route kept open at all time (using temporary traffic lights) apart from three consecutive Sunday nights when full carriageway closures will be needed – from Sunday 20 September. More information is available at the scheme project page at: https://highwaysengland.co.uk/regions/north-west/
A590, A585 and M6 (Forton to Junction 34)
A £1 million rolling programme of overnight work to renew road markings and road studs along sections of the A590, A585 and M6 in Cumbria and Lancashire is taking place until September. The work is focusing on sections of the A590 between Dalton-in-Furness and Brettargh Holt Roundabout, the A585 between Eros Roundabout and Little Singleton and along the M6 between Forton and Lancaster. Some overnight road, lane or slip road closures and or temporary traffic signals will be used. Work along the A585 section has now been completed.
