For more information on these and other highway schemes, please visit www.liverpool.gov.uk/highwayprojects.
Roads Affected by Works
Aigburth Road / Baltic Triangle / City Centre Events (Mathew Street Festival) / Commercial District (Dale Street & Old Hall Street) / Edge Lane / Everton Valley / Hall Lane / Knowledge Quarter (Mount Pleasant area) / M62 (including The Rocket Interchange; Queens Drive; Bowring Park Road) / Queensway Tunnel / Riverside Drive / Smithdown Road / Speke Boulevard / Speke Road
Aigburth Road
Work is underway to replace a gas main on Aigburth Road between Beechwood Road and Dingle Lane. There have been some problems with phase 2 and work is still in this phase.
The work is being carried out in four phases:
· Beechwood Road to St Margaret’s C of E School, (including the Aigburth Road/Aigburth Hall Avenue junction) - Complete
· St. Margaret’s C of E School to the junction of Fulwood Park and Aigburth Road for 8 weeks – Current Phase.
· Fulwood Park to the junction of Colbrooke Road and Aigburth Road for 12 weeks.
· The junction of Colbrooke Road and Aigburth Road along Colbrooke Road into Dingle Vale and into Dingle Lane for 4 weeks.
The work is being carried out under lane restrictions and there may be slight variations to the programme due to unforeseen circumstances. This information will be regularly updated.
The slip road off Aigburth Road outbound, just before the traffic lights, leading to Aigburth Vale, will be closed until Tuesday, 31st August. Buses and other traffic will be diverted into Sefton Park and back onto Aigburth Vale.
On Tuesday, 31st August the junction of Ashfield Road from Aigburth Road will be closed for a week.
Exploratory work has been taking place on Thursday, 26th and Friday 27th August at the junction of Eastfield Avenue and Aigburth Road with off-peak lane restrictions both inbound and outbound. More work is expected in this area as part of Phase 3 of the scheme.
Baltic Triangle
The CCMS scheme to improve the pavements and highways in the Baltic Triangle area has been on site since March 2010. Access to all local businesses is available at ALL times.
Sections of Jamaica Street between Bridgewater St and Blundell St are closed to traffic to allow the works to be completed safely and efficiently although access is available via side streets to all businesses. The section of Jamaica Street from Parliament Street to Norfolk Street is now complete and completely resurfaced. Traffic signal installation at the Parliament Street end of Jamaica Street will be completed by the end of next month.
Unfortunately Scottish Power have had to undertake emergency works at the junction of Parliament Street and Jamaica Street resulting in excavations within recently completed work areas. The City Council are working with partners Enterprise Liverpool to ensure that Scottish Power reinstall finished paving to the highest standards.
City Centre Events
Mathew Street Festival: There will be road closures around the city centre for the Mathew Street Festival which takes place over the August Bank Holiday weekend. For more details, please visit: http://www.mathewstreetfestival.org/getting-here/road-closures/
Commercial District
On Dale Street work is complete between Vernon Street and Churchill Way Flyover. Work has now started outside Municipal Buildings between Crosshall St and Sir Thomas Street but will conclude for the Bank Holiday weekend and the Traffic Management facilities will be temporarily removed to an alternative location for the Mathew Street Festival.
The Disabled Car parking facilities outside the Municipal Buildings will be temporarily suspended for a short period to allow works to be undertaken in this area. The bus stop will also be closed for a short time.
The slip road from Hatton Garden onto Dale Street is temporarily closed to allow the safe construction of the kerbs and footpaths. This closure will be carefully monitored and consultation will begin to possibly make it permanent. Crosshall Street will be reduced to one lane at its junction with Dale Street to facilitate regulatory Traffic Management in this location for a limited time.
In order to minimise disruption to transport movement between Crosshall Street and Stanley Street, Dale Street may be reduced to one lane at weekends. This will only be undertaken when absolutely necessary for safety reasons.
Works on the southern footpath at the Town Hall end of the street, between Castle Street and North John Street, have started on site having been reprogrammed reconstruction works to proceed ahead of schedule. This has a minimal impact on traffic as the carriageway is wide enough for through traffic and will also help to speed completion of the works.
Delays are continuing to be experienced due to shallow underground services found on site but the City Council is working with partners to undertake diversion works to minimise delays to the construction period.
Transco upgrade works are expected in the area around Hackins Hey which will close for a weekend on a date to be agreed to minimise impact upon local traffic and businesses. Transco also report that they will be seeking to undertake improvement works along North John Street starting at its Dale Street junction ahead of City Council CCMS works, probably within the next few weeks subject to approvals by partners.
The whole section of ‘blacktop’ carriageway along Dale Street between the flyover and Exchange St East will be reconstructed before the end of the scheme by Enterprise Liverpool Ltd in partnership with the City Council. Further details will be available at a later date.
On Old Hall Street work is now underway on the section of footpath between Old Leeds Street and Rigby Street.
The traffic islands at the junction with Old Leeds Street and Rigby Street have both been successfully removed. This will now make through traffic flows easier and safer. A one way restriction northbound between Brook Street and Union Street has been introduced on 16th August until the end of the works early in 2011.
The whole of the CCMS works on both streets in the Commercial District will be completed by early 2011.
Edge Lane
There are intermittent lane restrictions due to work being carried out by National Grid on Edge Lane (outbound) at the junction with Laurel Road. There will also be works at the junction with Binns Road, again with intermittent lane closures, but the contractor will only work on one site at a time to minimise disruption. This will continue for a further week. Restrictions will be eased daily from 3.30pm.
Everton Valley
Lane restrictions are in place on Everton Valley near the junction of Netherfield Road heading south. Emergency gas works are being undertaken and the works are expected to continue for a maximum of two weeks.
Hall Lane Strategic Gateway
Hall Lane Strategic Gateway, now under construction, will provide a much improved traffic route for vehicles entering Liverpool from the east and will take through traffic out of the residential areas.
West Derby Street is now closed until towards the end of the year to enable major utilities and junction work to be carried out.
The major Gas main diversion work up Irvine Street and across Minshull Street has now been completed.
There will be some lane restrictions and closures around the Low Hill/Prescot Street/Kensington junction to move the traffic lights into temporary blocks. These restrictions will be in place for 20 weeks while the layout of the junction is changed, we are currently in week six of this particular Traffic Management phase.
The reinforced earth retaining wall is complete and is now being clad with sandstone. In situ reinforced concrete walls are required for short lengths at each end of the wall, and work on these is now in progress. The fencing work along the top of the retaining wall has commenced, and continues as sections of wall become available.
The sandstone in front of the wall is being excavated to road formation level and the excavated material is being re-used on site.
The Presbytery rebuilding works are complete and the car park area is being prepared.
Other off line road works have been continuing and parts of the new road have had drainage installed and road construction completed up to underside of the surface course.
We apologise in advance for any disruption these works will cause as we create a much improved route for vehicles entering our city from the east and remove through traffic from residential areas.
Knowledge Quarter/Mount Pleasant
Work is continuing on the CCMS scheme in the Knowledge Quarter in the area around the Metropolitan Cathedral and Liverpool University.
The upper part of Mount Pleasant from the junction with Oxford Street to Brownlow Hill is closed to traffic to allow the works to be completed safely. Safe and accessible pedestrian facilities will be maintained throughout the extent of the works. The footpath around the perimeter of the Metropolitan Cathedral is now being paved to enable pedestrians to move around the works. This enlarged section of footpath should be open to pedestrian traffic permanently by the end of the week, weather permitting.
Access to the University car parks, Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, Cathedral House and the Catholic Chaplaincy to the University is being maintained at all times from the Brownlow Hill junction while Upper Mount Pleasant is closed.
Works to the area outside the steps to the Metropolitan Cathedral are continuing ahead of paving works to ensure completion of this footpath and revised road alignment before Hope Street Feast in September.
Footpath works are now complete in Great Orford Street apart from the pedestrian crossing table which will be installed at a later date to coincide with local school holidays. Work is complete on Clarence Street to the carriageway, kerbs and footpaths.
Advance Traffic signal works to the junction at Clarence/Rodney/Mount Pleasant are complete ahead of schedule. New carriageway surfacing and road markings, including advanced stop lines for cyclists will be completed at a later date after kerbing and pedestrian tactile facilities have been installed.
Work has also started on sections of footpath on the outbound lane between Mount Pleasant car park and Clarence Street. Delays are being experienced due to damaged cellars caused by earlier Statutory Undertakers’ works. These have left structural problems which are slowing down CCMS works until an agreeable solution to all parties can be found. Works will continue on footpaths down into Mount Pleasant towards the Multi Storey Car Park once progress is made in this area.
Works will shortly commence on the outbound footpath in Oxford Street between Mount Pleasant and Mulberry Street after the Bank Holiday weekend. There will be minimal impact upon the highway and through traffic in this location. Works will also start in Rodney Street between Mount Pleasant and Hardman Street after the Hope Street Festival at a date to be agreed.
The whole of the works connected with this scheme and including Oxford Street are due for completion in April/May next year.
M62 / The Rocket Interchange / Queens Drive / Bowring Park Road
Essential maintenance work to the high mast street lights in this area will mean off-peak lane restrictions and lane closures in this area from September 1st to September 5th.
The main works will be on Sunday, September 5th with traffic management back over the brow of the hill at the end of the M62 to provide motorists with sufficient warning of the lane closures.
Queensway Tunnel
Queensway Tunnel will also be closed in both directions from 10pm on Saturday, 28th August to 6.30am on Tuesday, 31st August for the Mathew Street Festival. It will also be closed from 10pm to 6.30am from Monday, 13th September to Thursday, 16th September for essential maintenance works. All traffic should use the Kingsway Tunnel.
Riverside Drive
Work to the electrical supply will mean temporary two-way traffic lights from September 6th for up to three days during off-peak hours, from 9.30am to 3.30pm.
Smithdown Road
Outward bound lane restrictions are in place for another week from the junction of Holmes Street and Smithdown Road due to demolition.
Speke Boulevard
Planned essential maintenance work from the entrance to Morrisons through to the boundary with Knowsley due to begin on September 1st has now been postponed due to the poor recent weather. There will be further updates when a new start date is decided.
Speke Road
Four way lights in place to cover HV fault at the junction of Speke Road and Church Road in Garston works are being undertaken by Scottish Power. Works are ongoing