Overnight motorway closures, J31 - J32, M6

[Gafferjim]

Drivers using the M6 and M55 around Preston in Lancashire are being advised that some overnight carriageway closures will be taking place this weekend and on Monday night as part of the £7m pinch point widening improvements.



The Highways Agency is widening the northbound carriageway of the M6 ahead of and through junction 32 at Broughton Interchange where the motorway meets the M55.



Full carriageway closures of the northbound M6 between junction 31 and junction 32 as well as the southbound M6 within junction 32 will be taking place overnight on the following nights:



· Overnight tonight (Friday 29 August) from 10pm until 6am tomorrow (Saturday 30 August)

· Tomorrow night (Saturday 30 August) from 9pm to 6am on Sunday (31 August)

· Sunday night (31 August) from 9pm to 6am on Monday (1 September)

· Monday night (1 September) from 9pm to 6am on Tuesday (2 September)



Clearly-signed diversions will be in place.



Drivers heading north along the M6 should leave at junction 31 and rejoin the motorway at junction 32 via the A59, A5085, A6 and eastbound M55.



Drivers heading south along the M6 southbound will need to join the westbound M55 from junction 32 and use the roundabout with the A6 at junction 1 to join the eastbound M55 and the link road for the southbound M6.



The closures are needed to allow the installation of a ‘superspan’ gantry to carry signs across the widened carriageway.



The work has been planned with awareness of this weekend’s illuminations events in Blackpool. No one leaving Blackpool after tonight’s events and those across the weekend will be directly affected by the carriageway closures or need to take any diversions but traffic around Broughton roundabout at junction 1 of the M55 and on the eastbound M55 itself will be monitored tonight before the closures are effected.

[Sensibleboy]

I'm trying to work out exactly what they are doing at this junction. It's already 4 lanes but only two go up north. There's a bridge on the north side that doesn't look wide enough for three lanes though.