18,000 vehicles predicted for relief road
Wednesday 21st April 2010, 10:22AM BST.
More than 18,000 vehicles a day could be using Shrewsbury’s proposed controversial North West Relief Road in its first year, highways chiefs said today.
A public consultation was launched yesterday for the £102m bypass which could be built by 2017 if plans win public backing.
Martin Allard, head of major projects at Shropshire Council, today claimed the road could help cut congestion within Shrewsbury town centre. He said it would also create “significant” employment.
Mr Allard said: “We have calculated the average daily traffic flows for the relief road and it’s suggesting something like 18,000 vehicles a day in 2017, its opening year.
“If you take out unnecessary through traffic in the town centre it enables you to deal with people who want to be in Shrewsbury and not those who just want to pass through the other side and are not spending money in the town centre.”
Plans for the bypass, which will run from the A5 at Churncote Island to the western end of Battlefield Link Road, have been in the pipeline for 20 years. Last summer the Government approved £85m for the road.
But it still faces a number of hurdles before it can become a reality, including the backing of the public. The consultation period will run until May 14.
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What about a relief road or bypass for Much Wenlock Shropshire Council?
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Well, get on with it then. The construction industry needs a boost.
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The debate about this new road has been going on since the early seventies,for goodness sake get on with it,talk about standing stillsbury.
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Does wenlock really need a bypass? Very little traffic goes through the main part of town, now, anyway.
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