TEMPORARY driving restrictions on Warrington’s Cantilever Bridge, which should be ending at the weekend, are to continue until the middle of May.
Work on repainting the bridge structure is seriously behind schedule – mainly because of adverse weather conditions, including the heavy snow early in January.
Warrington Borough Council is making new orders for temporary driving bans and footpath closures.
The Latchford bridge is Warrington’s only high level crossing of the Manchester Ship Canal and has been controlled by temporary traffic lights since the canal company started painting in October.
Work should have finished this Friday but is now expected to continue until May 17.
The restrictions have caused traffic chaos for people travelling in and out of the town from the south at peak periods.
Alternative routes are signposted and involve Wash Lane, Knutsford Road, Kingsway South, Hunts Lane, Wilderspool Causeway, Grappenhall Road, London Road and Ackers Road.
A temporary footpath has been provided on the bridge.
Prior to the painting operation starting in October, resurfacing work was carried out by the canal company and that also fell well behind schedule.
TEMPORARY driving restrictions on Warrington's Cantilever Bridge, which
should be ending at the weekend, are to continue until the middle of
May.
Another three months of bridge chaos
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