Proposals existed for an extension into North Wales across the proposed River Dee Barrage, [7] but these have not happened.
Until the M56 terminated at a roundabout at the west end. Work started in [9] to grade-separate this junction and others to allow free-flowing traffic to North Wales. The project was completed in At junction 7 in July , the slip road letting traffic come in southbound along the M56 and turn onto the A southbound was closed while the bridge where it crosses the M56 the Bowdon View Bridge , which for many years had had a weight restriction, was worked on; traffic intending to use it had to carry on to junction 10 and there turn round, or go through the centre of Altrincham ; traffic for the nearby Tatton Park Flower Show , and the resulting closure to through traffic of the minor road along the southwest edge of Tatton Park from Ashley, Cheshire to Mere, Cheshire which would otherwise have acted as a bypass for people living in the area , added to the resulting congestion.
In October and November , the bridge was demolished and replaced. The old bridge was demolished because it was found to be cracking. The M56 was closed over that weekend for this.
This caused much traffic congestion from M56 traffic diverted through Altrincham and Wythenshawe and along Styal Road and Kingsway, starting on Thursday 26 March because of work putting cones on the carriageway.
The Government announced in August that the motorway would be upgraded to a smart motorway. There will also be a new junction between the existing Junctions 11 and 12 to relieve heavy congestion on this stretch.
Jump to: navigation , search. Retrieved 1 January BBC News. Retrieved 18 October Evidently the market did decide, because 50 years later there is still no motorway service area here! Having said that, motorway giants Forte did open a Little Chef and Travelodge nearby in the s. The question which remains unanswered is where exactly Eastham Rake services was supposed to be.
If Hapsford was to be build at a junction, then building at M53 J5 was a possibility. However that junction was not part of the M53 until There is open land immediately west of Eastham Rake railway station which seems like a more likely target, though it would have been much more expensive than the junction arrangement.
Since , developers have been solely responsible for coming up with their own proposals for new motorway services. This led to an increase in proposals, but they are normally clustered around the same area and most are quickly ruled out. Rough location. Planned by Lawlor Land Co. Was described as a service area for the A49, but it was refused because the DoT suspected it was aiming to be an M56 service area.
Planned by Bushwing Plc approved but not built and Shell. It was worse than you can possibly imagine. Finally, due to open in Spring , the A was upgraded to dual carriageway on a similar line to the proposed motorway, so after a 40 year gestation period, the nails were finally hammered into the coffin of the A M. As you might imagine, it's moved around a little, though generally the majority of the motorway was planned to be to the north of A The s plan involved leaving the M6 just north of J19, and then heading across to what became M56, just to the west of the current J8 loop.
OK, the s plan left the M6 just south of junction And yes, this would have involved demolishing Knutsford Services! It would have skirted the western side of Kennel Wood and the Mere Estate, crossed the A50 and headed northwards to meet the M56 at the junction 7 and 8 complex. Hi - maybe a bit of info that might be useful - in I was working at a business just off the A The Department of Transport had detailed plans to build a replacement road. They had three plans - upgrading the current road, building a new road or a mixture of the two.
The widening was ruled out because it required purchasing about 60 properties - and the properties along the road are worth a million or two each. The route they proceeded with was a new motorway I don't know if 4 or 6 lanes about yards to the west of the A I don't know what they planned at either end in terms of junctions. They went as far as buying a house on Millington Hall Lane as a site office and producing a badger relocation plan!
The challenge with building with this road is that is cuts through land either owned by the Tatton Estate or wealthy individuals. I'd also suspect that someone has worked out that the A is a useful bottleneck to reduce the flow of traffic - the M6 for southbound and the M56 northbound probably couldn't cope with the additional volume.
I regularly have to drive down this road in order to visit Birmingham from Manchester. In what is a hideous drive anyway, down the car-park that is the M6, the A is probably the worst bit of the journey.
The two traffic light sections are virtually always a total bottleneck. It can often take the best part of 40 minutes to do the 6 miles between the M56 and M6. If there's an accident the whole situation backs up onto the M6 or M56 making those routes even worse. How people actually live on this road I'll never know. The sooner the eejits at Whitehall pull their fingers out and sort out the building of the A M the better.
Outline plans are for extension of the existing short sections of two-lane dual carriageway largely on the current line of route except for a short by-pass of the section around Mere corner traffic lights. It is not clear from the outline whether the poorly laid out junctions at both M56 and M6 intersections will be altered, but it looks unlikely.
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