Roads report
Page 18
If you've noticed an error in this article please click here to report it so we can fix it.
• The Minister of Transport has accepted the £2,159,006 tender of Cementation Construction Ltd. for the building of the fivemile-long Morpeth by-pass. The new road will start at the Al /A697 junction at Warreners House, north of Morpeth, pass to the west of the town and continue southwards to High Clifton, where it will re-join the existing Al Work will start soon on this two-year project.
A further 9.66 miles of the MS between Tebay and Thrimby in Westmorland are to be built by Christiani-Shand. The work will take about two years to complete and will cost £7,949,540. The scheme includes the construction of a two-level interchange at Shap connecting the Orton and the East Harendale road and the building of 18 bridges and approximately 6+ miles of slip roads and side road diversions. It will be necessary to close about a mile of the northbound carriageway of the M6 at Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire, from a central reservation crossing point about 450 yards north of the junction with the Liverpool road to a crossing 100 yards north of Downall Green Bridge between 6 a.m. and 10 a.m. on Sundays August 25, September 22 and October 13.
A 75 per cent grant to Glasgow Corporation towards the £70,000 traffic management schemes for Paisley Road and Paisley Road West is being made by the Secretary of State for Scotland. Traffic management techniques will be introduced including new traffic lights at Cornwall Street and Midlock Street and modification of the lights at Lorne Street and Govan Road/Admiral Street. Signal-controlled pedestrian crossings will be installed at Sus sex Street, Portman Street and Shields Street and all signals in the scheme will be linked to operate in a controlled sequence.
The Secretary of State for Wales has made a grant of £37,500 towards the £50,000 cost of the first stage of a scheme to improve a length of the Chepstow to Monmouth road (A466) to the north of Brockweir Bridge. The existing road will be widened and the work will include the removal of an old railway bridge.