{"id":71964,"date":"2016-07-05T14:45:39","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T14:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=e5e436c0ce114a9660cd62fbb340fe87"},"modified":"2016-07-05T14:45:39","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T14:45:39","slug":"press-release-public-exhibitions-for-m6-smart-motorway-upgrade-near-coventry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=71964","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Public exhibitions for M6 smart motorway upgrade near Coventry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Drivers, business owners and local residents are invited to find out more about plans to upgrade the M6 between junction 2 (Coventry) and junction 4 (Coleshill) to a smart motorway at a series of public exhibitions starting this week.<\/p>\n<p>The M6 is a major strategic route connecting people, communities and businesses, carrying over 120,000 vehicles per day between junctions 2 and 4. Highways England is proposing to improve the M6 between junction 2 at Coventry and junction 4 at Coleshill by upgrading it to a smart motorway. Work will start in early 2017 and is expected to be open by the end of 2018.<\/p>\n<p>This means there will be:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>an additional lane for traffic increasing capacity to reduce congestion<\/li>\n<li>more technology on the road to manage incidents<\/li>\n<li>more reliable journeys<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Members of the public, local residents and businesses are all encouraged to attend one of the five events taking place over the next two weeks where they will be able to see detailed plans of the proposals, find out more about smart motorways and ask questions of the project team.<\/p>\n<p>The meetings will take place as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thursday July 7: 2pm \u2013 8pm Novotel M6 junction 3, CV6 6HL<\/li>\n<li>Friday July 8: 10am \u2013 8pm  Novotel M6 junction 3, CV6 6HL<\/li>\n<li>Saturday July 9: 10am \u2013 4pm  Novotel M6 junction 3, CV6 6HL<\/li>\n<li>Thursday July 14: 10am \u2013 8pm  Chelmsley Wood Town Council, B37 7NS<\/li>\n<li>Friday July 15: 10am \u2013 8pm  Chelmsley Wood Town Council, B37 7NS<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"contact-information\">Contact information<\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"phone-number\">Phone number<\/h3>\n<p>0300 123 5000<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"email\">Email<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:M6.j2-4@highwaysengland.co.uk\">M6.j2-4@highwaysengland.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"mailing-address\">Mailing address<\/h3>\n<p>M6 junction 2 to 4 smart motorway<br \/>\nHighways England<br \/>\nThe Cube<br \/>\n199 Wharfside Street<br \/>\nBirmingham<br \/>\nB1 1RN<\/p>\n<p>For <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.highways.gov.uk\/roads\/road-projects\/m6-junction-2-to-junction-4-smartmotorway\/\">more information visit the scheme website.<\/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>Public are invited to find out more about plans to upgrade the M6 between junction 2 and 4.<\/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\/71964"}],"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=71964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}