Getting to M6 to be easier

The following article will be of interest to all those locally that travel across to the M6 and to the Potteries:

Cheshire East Council has been given the final piece of the jigsaw after a bid for road infrastructure improvements in and around Crewe was successful. The £2m worth of funding, awarded to the Council by the Department for Transport (DfT) for 'local pinch points', backs the Council's vision for a less congested and more integrated road network that will help transform Crewe and surrounding areas into an economic powerhouse by 2030.

It is the culmination of several years of hard work and lobbying by the Council and is the latest in a series of successful 'road bids' for the Council.

The cash will help build a 600 metre-long widening of the A500 on the approach to the M6 at junction 16 on the Crewe side, with a completion date set for summer 2015. This will create an additional full length lane along that stretch of the A500, which will then taper into a shorter third lane.

This will help ease traffic congestion to the proposed Basford East and West development sites.These are strategic employment sites that are a key part in the council's vision to help create up to 12,500 jobs over the next two decades as part of the ambitious 'All Change for Crewe' programme.

Recent successful bids to the DfT also include:

• £7.5m to ease congestion around junction 16, with the widening and installation of traffic signals on the A500 and M6 approaches to the junction.
• £2.7m of 'local pinch point' funding towards the Basford West spine road linking the A500 at Shavington with Gresty Road in Crewe, with work proposed to begin in Summer 2014
• Up to '15.7m of funding for our planned Crewe Green Link Road scheme which will further improve access to the Basford development sites.

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