Traffic Management for Carrington Relief Road now in operation

Trafford Council has hired Balfour Beatty to conduct surveys on several roads around where the Carrington Relief Road is proposed to be built.

The surveys have just started and are expected to be completed by 13 March. This will mean traffic management schemes will run on the following roads: Carrington Lane, Flixton Road, Isherwood Road, and Manchester Road. Work will be on weekdays, and it is believed the contractor will try to reduce disruption by carrying out work outside of peak hours.

Weekends will also mean Carrington Spur will be closed from 8 pm till 5 am on 14, 21, 28 February, and 7 March.

The work being carried out will range from visual inspections to penetrating radar, and oddly, the noisiest works being carried out will be after midnight!

Temporary lights will be in operation from 8 pm on 15 and 22 February and 1st and 8th March on Carrington Lane, Carrington Spur, and Banky Lane. These lights will be on from 8 pm until 5 am with no road closures.

Traffic diversions will be in place in advance so you can arrange another route.

The Carrington Relief Road is now at the application phase and is expected to be approved at a planning meeting this year despite the objections. We will have a full report of what happens shortly after. If it gets a refusal, then it is expected to either go for another route or it be scrapped. In this case, it is hoped that the money can go to reopening the disused rail line either as a tram/train line with a cycle path (both ways) from Partington to Timperley A56 which should have happened in the first place!!