There will be a full weekend closure of the M56 between junctions 5 and 7 this week for final upgrade work. The motorway will be shut between 9pm on Friday September 9 and 6am on Monday September 12.
National Highways are installing stop vehicle detection technology and undertaking surfacing work. To ‘reduce the impact on customers’, they're lifting the closure on Sunday morning to accommodate fans travelling to Manchester United’s home game on Sunday afternoon.
Following this, the road will be open to traffic at 60 mph with extra lanes running both east and westbound, in place of the old hard shoulders.
