{"id":59576,"date":"2015-07-24T10:39:29","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T10:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=b068a9433da5d87f3507d706dffa4702"},"modified":"2015-07-24T10:39:29","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T10:39:29","slug":"press-release-traffic-bulletin-further-m6-junction-17-closure-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=59576","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Traffic bulletin: further M6 junction 17 closure tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Highways England scheme, designed to tackle congestion and boost safety, has improved the flow of traffic between the M6 and A534 with a new roundabout and traffic lights. A new \u2018free flow\u2019 lane also takes drivers onto the northbound side of the motorway, bypassing the roundabout.<\/p>\n<p>The newly remodelled junction has been in operation since April but finishing works will be completed tonight after a weekend of working earlier this month was disrupted by an incident and poor weather.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight\u2019s work requires the closure of all 4 slip roads at the motorway junction with drivers seeking to join or leave the motorway directed by clearly-signed diversions to other motorway junctions. The bridge carrying the local A534 over the motorway will also be closed with drivers travelling between Congleton and Sandbach also provided with clearly-signed diversions.<\/p>\n<p>The work tonight, to complete road markings and installing road studs, will start at 8pm and will be completed by 7am tomorrow morning (Saturday 25 July).<\/p>\n<p>More information is available on the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.highways.gov.uk\/roads\/road-projects\/M6-Junction-17-Sandbach-Improvements-\">project webpage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"general-enquiries\">General enquiries<\/h3>\n<p>Members of the public should contact the Highways England customer contact centre on 0300 123 5000.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"media-enquiries\">Media enquiries<\/h3>\n<p>Journalists should contact the Highways England press office on 0844 693 1448 and use the menu to speak to the most appropriate press officer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A further night\u2019s closure to complete a major upgrade at junction 17 of the M6 in Cheshire is due to take place tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59576"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}