THE government has stated that 62 road schemes are to be funded under the Pinch Point Project nationally.
While I am not best placed to write about areas such as Hartford/Green Bank, Sproston and other areas of Cheshire West and Holmes Chapel in Cheshire East, for years Middlewich has been promised an eastern bypass, which should have been constructed aeons ago.
Will areas in Middlewich, such as Croxton Lane (A530), where the bridge has been a ‘pinch point’ for donkey’s years be included in this scheme? Traffic control should have been emplaced on this bridge to slow traffic and reduce accidents, or a ‘bailey bridge’ installed alongside to ease traffic flow.
Even if the Middlewich eastern bypass is constructed it might relieve Lewin Street but will not ease through traffic on Holmes Chapel Road and Chester Road travelling to and from the Winsford direction on the A54.
Today plans are being submitted for a five-mile relief road close to Knutsford linking the M6 and M56.
So is the Middlewich bypass full of eastern promise?
Do readers think that this Middlewich scheme is top, middle or bottom of Cheshire East’s list?
ALAN LANGLEY Middlewich
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