A new entry and exit arrangements are planned at Bolton’s household recycling centre to ease queuing and congestion at peak times.
Suez, who operate the Salford Road Household Waste Recycling Centre (HWRC), have submitted proposals to ease congestion at the site by swapping the entrance and exit routes and creating 175m of ‘off-line’ queuing between the unloading areas and the access road.
Documents published by Bolton Council said access problems at the site had increased recently. A transport statement, said: “Operational experience at the HWRC site over the past few years, particularly since the Covid pandemic, has identified that the current customer vehicle arrangements have at times struggled to cope with the nature and extent of demand during busy summer seasonal periods – leading to ‘block-back’ queuing from the initial customer waste drop-off zone, along the site entry road and out onto the spine road.”
The report said that In response staff implemented temporary arrangements at busy times which included no direct entry into the centre from the A6. Instead customer vehicles were required to continue along Salford Road before U-turning into a contraflow queueing lane.
