M56 and M53 Stoak Interchange weekend roadworks for maintenance
Work to repair bridges, resurface the carriageway and carry out other maintenance around Cheshire’s Stoak Interchange – where the M53 meets the M56 – will get underway early next month.
The £1.56m Highways Agency scheme will focus around Junction 15 of the M56 and Junction 11 of the M53 at Stoak and is due to begin on Friday, September 2 with intermittent works -including some slip road and carriageway closures, overnight and at weekends – until Friday, October 7.
The Highways Agency has combined schemes in the area to minimise future inconvenience for motorway users.
A weekend closure of the westbound M56 from Junction 15 until the end of the motorway where it meets the A5117 near Junction 16 is planned to start on Saturday, September 10. The closure will be in place from 9pm on the Saturday night until 6am on the Monday, September 12.
There will also be a couple of nights of weekday overnight working, with further full closures in place between 10pm and 5am.
Two weekend closures of the eastbound carriageway between the start of the motorway from the A5117 and Junction 15 will take place between 9pm on Friday nights and 7am on Sunday mornings starting on Friday, September 16 and Friday, September 30.
There will also be three weekday overnight closures over the roadworks period between 10pm and 5am.
The M56 westbound link road onto the M53 northbound at Stoak will also be closed between 9pm on Saturday, September 24 and 6am on Monday, September 26 with a further, overnight, closure between 10pm on Tuesday, October 4 and 5am on Wednesday, October 5.
Some 50mph speed restrictions will also be in place along the carriageways around the interchange for safety reasons while closures are in place.
The weekend works have also been timetabled to allow the region’s weekenders heading for Anglesey and other parts of North Wales to ensure at least one part of their journey – outbound or inbound – is free from roadworks.
Highways Agency project sponsor Mark Mosley, said, "This is routine but vital maintenance of this important motorway interchange and we hope drivers appreciate that we do need to close lanes and carriageways from time to time to ensure we continue to deliver safe, smooth and reliable journeys for motorway users.
"To minimise inconvenience to motorway users we have tried to do as much work as possible around this area within the same roadworks slots, tried to be sensitive to people heading out of the region for the weekend and timed the work to take place when traffic volumes are at their lightest."
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