The gas renewal works are continuing around Macclesfield, particularly on Chester Road near Broken Cross and Park Lane. Next week the Chester Road works will be suspended and there will be a temporary 'one-way' order in place on Oxford Road at the roundabout at it's junction with Chester Road from Monday 3rd August for approximately 3 weeks. Traffic will not be able to enter Oxford Road from the Chester Road roundabout and will instead be diverted via Cumberland Street, Hibel Road, The Silk Road and Park Lane. Traffic travelling in the other direction will be able to exit Oxford Road at the roundabout onto Chester Road.
Whilst these restrictions will cause some disruption to traffic, this will allow most traffic to use the roundabout as normal. The alternative to closing the inbound lane into Oxford Road was to replace the roundabout with 4-way traffic signals which I believe would have caused more congestion and traffic problems than the proposed restrictions.
Please note that these restrictions will not occur until the current 4-way temporary traffic signals on Park Lane have been removed and reverted to 2-way signals further along Park Lane.
Further information about these works is available via telephone on 0800 121 4444 (FREE Customer Care Helpline).
I don't want to go over this again and again - but it won't be long till the press are complaining about roadworks throttling Cheshire.
Cheshire East do everything they can to mitigate the impact of essential roadworks. This again is shown here, with careful coordination of a large program of works that has an impact all over Macclesfield.
