THE vision of a dual carriageway along the length of Liverpool’s Edge Lane will finally be complete in March when roadworks on the long-awaited creation of the widened road into the city centre will finish.

But there is still no start date for house building on the key route, as developers Bellway Homes are waiting for the slump in the property market to end.

The expansion of the road between Botanic Place and Hall Lane will finally complete the two-lane link between the city centre and the M62 at the Rocket junction.

It will create a modern dual carriageway throughout the length of the key route.

The recently completed £19m Hall Lane bypass will mean that motorists will have a much quicker drive from the city centre to the M62.

Traffic lights will be phased to give motorists a run of green lights.

The completion of the road will be a key milestone in the project that has suffered years of delays due to legal battles, led by campaigning grandmother Elizabeth Pascoe, over the compulsory purchase order to buy homes.

Officials have long argued that the widening of the road was just part of a wider project to regenerate the area.

A new £5m health centre and a business park will be built alongside hundreds of new homes.

But the completion of a dual carriageway from the Rocket to the city centre marks a decades-long ambition for Liverpool.