M6 motorists facing week of closures
Saturday 26th June 2010, 11:29AM BST.
Motorists face a week of closures on the M6 next week as work continues on a scheme to open the hard shoulder to traffic.
The Highways Agency today announced a series of works which will take place from June 28 to July 4 stretching from Walsall to Warwick. It includes installing more steel gantries and CCTV.
It is all part of a scheme which will see traffic using the hard shoulder from next year during peak times in a bid to cut congestion.
The first of the closures will be from Monday at the southbound entry slip road of the M6 at junction 10 which will be closed each night from 9.30pm to 5.30am from Monday until Wednesday for installation of CCTV.
The link road from the M5 northbound to the M6 southbound at junction 8 will also be closed each night from 10pm to 5am from Monday to Sunday for structural repairs.
From Wednesday until Friday the northbound exit slip road of the M6 Junction 10 will be closed from 9.30pm to 5.30am each day for CCTV to be installed.
The southbound entry slip road of the M6 at junction 10 will be closed overnight from 10pm on Saturday to 8am on Sunday, again for CCTV.
On Friday the northbound M6 between junctions 8 and 10 will be shut from 10pm to Saturday at 8am and again from 8pm on Saturday to 10am on Sunday for new gantries to be installed.
Other closures will be in place running up to Junction 15 at Warwick.
It was revealed earlier this month how families living next to the M6 where contractors are working day and night to widen the carriageway will soon see the back of the roadworks as the scheme moves south. The work between junctions 10 and 10a is nearly complete. The hard shoulder scheme has provoked controversy in some areas where trees have been cut back in order to create new emergency lay-bys.
Some people living near the M6 motorway in streets such as Murdock Way on the Beechdale Estate say gantries for new signs which are taller than their houses were also put up without them being warned.
And others say the cutting back of trees has also led to an increase in rats in the streets.
The Highways Agency has since cut the size of some gantries after consultation with residents.
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So its a really sensible time then to start major work on the black country route – close to where it joins the M5 J1….it must be planned that way just in case anyone tries to avoid the M6 work.
Well done Highways agency!! Mess up everyone’s summer why don’t you?
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Why are people moaning about this. That the reason the roads in our area are in the state they are in because too many people have to have a dig which delays the work.
The M6, A41 and the burnt tree island works are all at least 10 years over due. I have no problem them doing them all at the same time. The sooner they are done the better. With the new government makeing cuts everywhere. Its a good job they have started because if it hadn’t then it probably never will and we’ll all be stuck in traffic jams for another 10 years.
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