Police asked to step in as drivers ignore diversions

Jul 28 2007 by Liam Murphy, Liverpool Daily Post

POLICE in Ellesmere Port are to be asked to help deal with drivers who are ignoring diversions while maintenance work is carried out on a railway bridge.

Cheshire council engineers say some drivers are not following diversion routes set up while the extensive maintenance work is carried out on Westminster Railway Bridge in the town.

Vice chairman of the local Joint Highways committee, county councillor Derek Bateman, said: “I would urge drivers to either follow the diversions or find alternative routes.”

The two sets of four- way lights at the Westminster Road / Meadow Lane and Cromwell Road / Princes Road junctions will be temporarily replaced by two mini roundabouts, one at each junction.

Due to the complexity of the junction at Cromwell Road, no traffic will be allowed to exit Cromwell Road onto the A5032 Whitby Road and traffic will be diverted to the Cambridge Road junction with heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) being diverted to McGarva Way, Stanney Lane (B5132) to Whitby Road.

Station Road will be closed to inward bound traffic only at a point immediately after the turning into West-minster Retail Park (Halfords).

Traffic travelling into the town centre from the M53 off junction 9 will be diverted into Queen Street, Grace Road and Westminster Road.