Safety improvements at M6 roundabout at Haydock Island in Merseyside
A £660,000 scheme to improve safety and reduce congestion around a key junction along the M6 in Merseyside has begun.
The Highways Agency is widening the exit slip roads on to the A580 and other local roads from Junction 23 of the motorway at Haydock Island.
Anyone coming off the motorway will also be stopped from turning right directly on to the A580 and will instead have to go around the roundabout.
The work also includes installing improved road markings, safety barriers and street lighting. The speed limit through the island will be reduced to 40mph.
In the three years to May of last year there were 42 personal injury accidents at the junction and the Highways Agency is aiming to make the island safer.
Work on the improvements is expected to be completed by the end of March but will make use of existing traffic management within the £5m project to repair and improve the two bridges between Junctions 22 and 23 of the motorway. A 50 mph speed limit backed by average speed cameras is in force through those roadworks.
Between 7,500 and 10,000 vehicles use the exit slips roads at Junction 23 each day.
Highways Agency Project Sponsor John Mather said, "This is an important scheme to improve safety and also reduce congestion at this junction. We ask that drivers take care through the roadworks for their own safety as well as that our our roadworkers.”
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