Road works set to cause traffic chaos

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ROADWORKS starting at a busy Warrington junction next Monday (January 14), are expected to cause disruption for up to 10 weeks.
The work, at the London Road/ Ellesmere Road/ Fairfield Road junction in Stockton Heath, will include new traffic signals, new ducting, kerbing, tactile paving and associated footway works.
There will also be a new pedestrian crossing created across Ellesmere Road, close to the London Road junction.
For the duration of the works, between 9:30am and 3:30pm, Ellesmere Road will be closed, at the junction of London Road to approximately 65m west of London Road, and Fairfield Road from London Road to the junction with Gaskell Street.
Public transport will also be affected. The number 48 bus service will not use Fairfield Road during the hours of 09:30am and 3:30pm. Ackers Road and Grappenhall Road will be used as the route for the 48 service.
A temporary stop will be installed near the end of Grappenhall Road, opposite the Police Station, to enable Victoria Square to be served.
After January 28, when the 48 is replaced by the 10C (and the 10A in the peaks), the 10C will travel via London Road and Sandy Lane. It will wait time on Sandy Lane, then go back around this loop again, to start its inward journey.
The 10A will have to use the diversion, as the 48 would have done, for its peak journeys.
Further details are available from email [email protected] or call 01925 443322.


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  1. Oh great and that’s first we have heard about it. Can someone please explain WHY on earth there is a need for a pedestrian crossing at the lights on Ellesmere Road ? It’s a one way street at that end so when the lights are on RED it is perfectly safe to cross as it is and always has been. It will be a problem now though if everyone crossing presses a button on some pedestrian crossing which then changes the lights (if that’s the sort they mean) as only a handful of cars get through the lights from Ellesmere as it is before the lights change back to red. And what on earth is ‘tactile paving’ and why the need to change the traffic lights as they aren;t broken !?? It all seems a complete waste of money to me unless anyone can convince me there is a valid reason for doing it all !!

  2. Dizzy. I cross that road every day and as you say there is absolutely no need for a crossing there and this will only serve to delay cars at the lights and increase pollution in the village as well as waste money. Farcical.

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