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Middlewich Bypass only 30 years late !
https://www.cheshireeast.gov.uk/council ... rward.aspx
When we moved here 26 years ago, the original scheme was on the Cheshire CC website ! Part of it was actually built, see here, (Pochin Way) : -
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Mid ... 3833?hl=en
It ends in a stub with a fence, and was left ready for work to recommence when finances again became available, but died with the formation of Cheshire East.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.18683 ... 6656?hl=en
The road to the left goes to the usual large sheds, one of which was, if I remember correctly, where ERF trucks ended up after their takeover by Paccar, who sold the company on to MAN. It all closed in 2007.
CEC then decided the bypass needed to be re-routed, so the new road will diverge from Pochin Way almost at the top near Optima Logistics. This is to make more land available for commercial buildings.
https://www.cheshireeast.gov.uk/highway ... ypass.aspx
I have to say I'll only believe it when I see men and machines at work on it !
The whole area around this road is very dismal and depressing !
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Speaking of traffic lights, the A13 at North Stifford (A1012) has seen the exit slip roads widened both ways, with the roundabout due to have traffic lights installed in the near future. The signs are already up for the lights, just greyed out for the time being. Not sure when these are meant to be installed, but presumably later this year?
Meanwhile, work on the A120 at Bishop's Stortford is now underway. https://www.essexhighways.org/highway-s ... ent-scheme
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We have one of those too, this one east of Darlington was supposed to be a link from the A66 to the A67 and Teesside Airport following the line of the old railway line. The project name was the Darlington Eastern Transport Corridor but the final section to the A67 was never built.fras wrote: ↑Sat Dec 11, 2021 10:13 Announcement on Thursday on the Cheshire East website: -
https://www.cheshireeast.gov.uk/council ... rward.aspx
When we moved here 26 years ago, the original scheme was on the Cheshire CC website ! Part of it was actually built, see here, (Pochin Way) : -
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Mid ... 3833?hl=en
It ends in a stub with a fence, and was left ready for work to recommence when finances again became available, but died with the formation of Cheshire East.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@54.53106 ... 8192?hl=en
In fact the B6279 is clearly built for much more traffic then ever materialised, that however is changing. A huge Amazon depot was now been built at its junction with the A66. With Teesside Airport now increasing its air freight capacity the link finally looks likely to be built.
Planning permission was actually approved in 2015 but the airport owners at the time did not go ahead with the plan, indeed it was clear that their plans was to close the airfield and build housing. The TVCA intervened and purchased the airport and has announced plans to complete the link road.
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KeithW wrote: ↑Sat Jan 22, 2022 13:13We have one of those too, this one east of Darlington was supposed to be a link from the A66 to the A67 and Teesside Airport following the line of the old railway line. The project name was the Darlington Eastern Transport Corridor but the final section to the A67 was never built.fras wrote: ↑Sat Dec 11, 2021 10:13 Announcement on Thursday on the Cheshire East website: -
https://www.cheshireeast.gov.uk/council ... rward.aspx
When we moved here 26 years ago, the original scheme was on the Cheshire CC website ! Part of it was actually built, see here, (Pochin Way) : -
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Mid ... 3833?hl=en
It ends in a stub with a fence, and was left ready for work to recommence when finances again became available, but died with the formation of Cheshire East.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@54.53106 ... 8192?hl=en
In fact the B6279 is clearly built for much more traffic then ever materialised, that however is changing. A huge Amazon depot was now been built at its junction with the A66. With Teesside Airport now increasing its air freight capacity the link finally looks likely to be built.
Planning permission was actually approved in 2015 but the airport owners at the time did not go ahead with the plan, indeed it was clear that their plans was to close the airfield and build housing. The TVCA intervened and purchased the airport and has announced plans to complete the link road.
Must admit I did always wonder where that was meant to go but it does seem a bit of a waste of money? The A67 between Morton Park and Eaglescliffe and the link road to the A66 are already high quality roads to link to the airport. Not sure why it needs another especially when they're dead at all hours currently. The money would be much better spent on the A66 between Morton Park / A1150 imo (ignoring it's National Highways) which regularly grind to a halt (not so much since Covid).
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It would have been a waste of money before the distribution warehouses were built along the A66 Darlington southern bypass but with them and the new Air Freight terminal being built at the airport Southside Business Park that is changing. It is not dead at all hours, the A66 at that point is S2 and had an AADF of over 20k before the Amazon depot opened. If anything we need to be looking at dualling it especially with the A66 being dualled between Scotch Corner and Penrith.jabbaboy wrote: ↑Mon Jan 24, 2022 17:22 Must admit I did always wonder where that was meant to go but it does seem a bit of a waste of money? The A67 between Morton Park and Eaglescliffe and the link road to the A66 are already high quality roads to link to the airport. Not sure why it needs another especially when they're dead at all hours currently. The money would be much better spent on the A66 between Morton Park / A1150 imo (ignoring it's National Highways) which regularly grind to a halt (not so much since Covid).
https://tritaxsymmetry.com/projects/sym ... arlington/#
https://www.novaloca.com/commercial-lan ... ton/164342
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I think you got mixed up there, I was talking about the A67 / the A66 to A67 link road (Mill Lane) which I believe is unnumbered there being dead rather than the A66. Totally agreed with the A66 sentiments though, awful road at the best of times and that's ignoring the fact there's no way of getting to the West of Darlington without plowing through the centre or the North without cutting through the top end (aware there's a bypass planned there though - if it ever happens).KeithW wrote: ↑Mon Jan 24, 2022 18:18It would have been a waste of money before the distribution warehouses were built along the A66 Darlington southern bypass but with them and the new Air Freight terminal being built at the airport Southside Business Park that is changing. It is not dead at all hours, the A66 at that point is S2 and had an AADF of over 20k before the Amazon depot opened. If anything we need to be looking at dualling it especially with the A66 being dualled between Scotch Corner and Penrith.jabbaboy wrote: ↑Mon Jan 24, 2022 17:22 Must admit I did always wonder where that was meant to go but it does seem a bit of a waste of money? The A67 between Morton Park and Eaglescliffe and the link road to the A66 are already high quality roads to link to the airport. Not sure why it needs another especially when they're dead at all hours currently. The money would be much better spent on the A66 between Morton Park / A1150 imo (ignoring it's National Highways) which regularly grind to a halt (not so much since Covid).
https://tritaxsymmetry.com/projects/sym ... arlington/#
https://www.novaloca.com/commercial-lan ... ton/164342
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I dont believe the route of the A66 has ever gone down Mill Lane. The only Mill Lane in Darlington that I know of is here.jabbaboy wrote: ↑Mon Jan 24, 2022 19:08I think you got mixed up there, I was talking about the A67 / the A66 to A67 link road (Mill Lane) which I believe is unnumbered there being dead rather than the A66. Totally agreed with the A66 sentiments though, awful road at the best of times and that's ignoring the fact there's no way of getting to the West of Darlington without plowing through the centre or the North without cutting through the top end (aware there's a bypass planned there though - if it ever happens).KeithW wrote: ↑Mon Jan 24, 2022 18:18It would have been a waste of money before the distribution warehouses were built along the A66 Darlington southern bypass but with them and the new Air Freight terminal being built at the airport Southside Business Park that is changing. It is not dead at all hours, the A66 at that point is S2 and had an AADF of over 20k before the Amazon depot opened. If anything we need to be looking at dualling it especially with the A66 being dualled between Scotch Corner and Penrith.jabbaboy wrote: ↑Mon Jan 24, 2022 17:22 Must admit I did always wonder where that was meant to go but it does seem a bit of a waste of money? The A67 between Morton Park and Eaglescliffe and the link road to the A66 are already high quality roads to link to the airport. Not sure why it needs another especially when they're dead at all hours currently. The money would be much better spent on the A66 between Morton Park / A1150 imo (ignoring it's National Highways) which regularly grind to a halt (not so much since Covid).
https://tritaxsymmetry.com/projects/sym ... arlington/#
https://www.novaloca.com/commercial-lan ... ton/164342
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@54.53802 ... 6656?hl=en
Until the A1(M) Darlington Bypass was opened the A66 ended at Scotch Corner and the A1 ran through Darlington along what is now the A167 before heading to Aycliffe.
The current A66/A66(M) route is shared with the A1 to J57 then takes the A66(M) to the BlackWell roundabout before taking the A66 southern bypass to Burdon east of Darlington before heading to Teesside.
Before the southern bypass was built you followed the A67 from the end of the A66(M) through Darlington , to pick up the road (A66 or A67 depending on date) through Stockton and Thornaby to Middlesbrough. The A66 Southern bypass was built many years later.
There has been a widespread renaming in the area, the route from Darlington to Stockton and Middlesbrough was the A67 and what is now the A67 past Teesside Airport was the B1273
Let we quote the wiki
https://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/wiki/index.php?title=A67 wrote: The A67 then enters Darlington. Its original route, then a trunk road, ran through the centre of Darlington, continuing east to Haughton-le-Skerne, Great Burdon and Elton to its original terminus in Stockton on the A19 Yarm Road. Round about 1960, the A67 was extended as a non-trunk road into Middlesbrough, where it ran up Newport Road and terminated on the A172 on Corporation Road by the town hall. This section was originally the A176 (observation of the later re-use of this number in Essex was the initial trigger for the whole "Roads by Ten" project.)
Later in the 1960s, the Darlington to Middlesbrough section of the A67 was usurped by the present A66. Subsequent improvements have taken the A66 away from the original A67 route, notably in Darlington itself, where the original route to the east the town is now partly the B6279 (anomalously numbered as it is entirely to the east of the A1).
The present A67 turns south in the western suburbs of Darlington to meet the A66 which we last saw at Bowes. (Most people travelling from Bowes to Darlington would prefer the A66, although it is about five miles further, as it is largely dual carriageway and doesn't go through any town of a size comparable with Barnard Castle). The A66 and A67 multiplex around Darlington – the A66 giving this multiplex primary status. The B6280 follows the pre-bypass route through the town centre. The next section of the A67, to Egglescliffe, was originally the B1273, but was upgraded to A-status at the same time as the A67 became the A66, probably because it serves Teesside Airport. At Egglescliffe the A67 terminated on the A19, until that road was diverted further east, the original route being renumbered north of Egglescliffe as the A135 (way out of place – perhaps it should swap numbers with the A176 in Essex). South of Egglescliffe the former A19 is now an extension of the A67 which cr
From the SABRE Wiki: A67 :
The A67 is only primary for a short section at its beginning, and is very much overshadowed by its big brother, the A66. Nowadays it appears to be of too slight significance to justify the two-digit number. However, until the 1960s, the A67 was the principal east-west route through southern County Durham - and the A66 is to blame for the fact that this has changed.
Bowes marks the fork of the main east-west Roman Road now followed by the A66, the southern (right) fork
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Nope, still not connected to the roundabout on the existing road. I was passing there only a few days ago.
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Came past again today and the other end is equally unfinished. Maybe Cheshire East are waiting for the new financial year to start.brummie_rob wrote: ↑Wed Mar 23, 2022 00:22 The road has been in the same state for a few months now and with zero effort to start connecting it to the roundabout I think the wait will go on.
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Now delayed until Summer to install a pedestrian crossing (despite there being an underpass for horses/cycles/people):
https://thenantwichnews.co.uk/2022/03/3 ... th-bypass/
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Indeed it has. Bearing in mind there's an underpass there, I find this decision to delay the opening a bit odd. I thought that would have been an ideal crossing/solution as it wouldn't hold up anyone.brummie_rob wrote: ↑Wed Mar 30, 2022 17:56 Now delayed until Summer to install a pedestrian crossing (despite there being an underpass for horses/cycles/people):
https://thenantwichnews.co.uk/2022/03/3 ... th-bypass/
I haven't had chance to be that way in months, but it's good to see progress at the existing roundabout. I think the last time I was there, it was little more than land clearance at the existing roundabout end.
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Good to hear, I've not walked that way for two weeks and hadn't seen if they'd bothered to start the connections. I think the issue with the underpass is that it connects a public footpath which crossed this area before and therefore isn't paved and I don't think it forms in the developers plans to do so (despite having paved some of it crossing the rest of the estate).haymansafc wrote: ↑Fri Apr 01, 2022 19:18Indeed it has. Bearing in mind there's an underpass there, I find this decision to delay the opening a bit odd. I thought that would have been an ideal crossing/solution as it wouldn't hold up anyone.brummie_rob wrote: ↑Wed Mar 30, 2022 17:56 Now delayed until Summer to install a pedestrian crossing (despite there being an underpass for horses/cycles/people):
https://thenantwichnews.co.uk/2022/03/3 ... th-bypass/
I haven't had chance to be that way in months, but it's good to see progress at the existing roundabout. I think the last time I was there, it was little more than land clearance at the existing roundabout end.
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I'm not sure when "mid summer" is, but there doesn't seem to be any evidence of any work being done on this, from what I can see when passing either end of the work. Neither end has changed, and there's a big pile of something blocking the end nearest the roundabout. Of course I can't tell whether there is work on the crossing going on out of view. I did wonder how it could possibly take so long to install a crossing on a road that isn't open yet - and therefore has no traffic congestion issues - but asked on another forum and the response seemed reasonable.brummie_rob wrote: ↑Fri Apr 01, 2022 23:42Good to hear, I've not walked that way for two weeks and hadn't seen if they'd bothered to start the connections. I think the issue with the underpass is that it connects a public footpath which crossed this area before and therefore isn't paved and I don't think it forms in the developers plans to do so (despite having paved some of it crossing the rest of the estate).haymansafc wrote: ↑Fri Apr 01, 2022 19:18Indeed it has. Bearing in mind there's an underpass there, I find this decision to delay the opening a bit odd. I thought that would have been an ideal crossing/solution as it wouldn't hold up anyone.brummie_rob wrote: ↑Wed Mar 30, 2022 17:56 Now delayed until Summer to install a pedestrian crossing (despite there being an underpass for horses/cycles/people):
https://thenantwichnews.co.uk/2022/03/3 ... th-bypass/
I haven't had chance to be that way in months, but it's good to see progress at the existing roundabout. I think the last time I was there, it was little more than land clearance at the existing roundabout end.
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Not just no work in progress, but nothing on site to indicate work might start in the near future. A typical council Pot Mess.
POTMESS Common slang word meaning a Muddle or Confusion; in the Navy it is generally qualified by the epithet "proper". The word probably comes from the kitchen: the biblical expression "mess of pottage" is akin.
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