Holidaymakers with early morning or late night flights at Manchester Airport given major travel warning
07.07.2022 - 13:21
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Holidaymakers are being warned to leave extra time for the drive to Manchester airport for late night or early morning flights due to work about to begin on the M56. The work is due to begin on Thursday July 14 and end on Friday August 5, and will see one busy section of the M56 closed.
The message is being aimed at anyone driving from areas west of the airport, including the West Midlands, North Wales and some parts of Cheshire. National Highways have confirmed that there will be weeknight closures eastbound on the M56 between junction six at Hale Barnes and junction 8 at Bowdon.
The junction for Manchester Airport, junction 5, has remained open throughout the £85 million upgrade and will remain open throughout these new closures. However, there are still local and motorway diversions in place from junction 7 at Altrincham.
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The work being carried out includes fitting new hard and electronic signs on gantries over the motorway, which requires cranes and multiple platforms. Meanwhile, National Highways are also converting the hard shoulder of the M56 into an extra running lane, both east and westbound.
However, before this extra lane opens, four new emergency areas are being built aling with a new central reservation barrier and low noise surfacing.
National Highways alternative motorway route to the airport suggests drivers should join or stay on the M6 at Lymm interchange, M56 junction 9/M6 Junction 20, travel north to junction 21 of the M6 where they should join the eastbound A57 Manchester Road, anti-clockwise M60 and westbound M56 for junction 5, Manchester Airport.
Sajjad Ali, National