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Welcome
Smart motorway
M56 junction 6 to 8
public information
exhibition
Highways England – Creative MCR18_0190
Introducing smart motorways
Smart motorways
Smart motorways are a technology-driven It is also used to support the response to
approach to the use of our motorways, incidents, using the signs and signals to close
increasing capacity and relieving congestion any lane in advance of the incident scene.
while maintaining safety. Smart motorways help
make journey times more reliable. Drivers are enjoying the benefits of smart
motorways across the country without safety
Technology is installed to monitor and manage being adversely affected – our motorways
traffic flow and the hard shoulder is used for continue to be some of the safest in the world.
traffic, either permanently or at peak times.
If you would like to know more about the M56
As well as the additional capacity from the extra junctions 6 to 8 smart motorway scheme you
lane, the technology manages traffic using can contact us at:
variable speed limits to smooth traffic, reducing
frustrating stop-start flow and improving journey M56J6-8SmartMotorway@highwaysengland.co.uk
reliability (meaning people have more confidence
in getting to their destination on time).
Smart motorway verge-side
gantry
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M56 junction 6 to 8 smart motorway
We are improving a 4-mile stretch of motorway installing remotely-operated temporary traffic
between junction 6 near Manchester Airport management signs along the entire route
and junction 8 near Bowdon by upgrading it to during construction, which forms a key
a smart motorway. safety feature of the work
Construction is planned to begin in spring 2019 4 new emergency areas to provide an area
and the smart motorway is expected to be of safety following a breakdown
completed by spring 2020.
new emergency roadside telephones in
The project involves: each emergency area. These will connect
converting the hard shoulder to create a new you directly to Highways England’s Regional
additional permanent traffic lane between Control Centres and pinpoint your location
junctions 6 to 8, increasing capacity to
reduce congestion replacing the central reservation with a new
concrete barrier between junctions 6 and 8
new electronic information signs and CCTV to help increase safety
cameras on overhead gantries.
new low-noise road surfacing on lanes 1
these will show variable mandatory speed and 4 on both sides of the carriageway.
limits and manage traffic flow and incidents
A56 Bowdon
A56
Hale Barns
M56
A538
Emergency Areas
Warburton
8 Green
M56
A556 6
7
M56
Rostherne
Mere
Emergency Areas
Rostherne
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Smart technology
A smart motorway has technology installed to CCTV and sensors detect and monitor
monitor and manage traffic flow. It is important congestion and incidents, so we can set
that you understand the signs and comply with appropriate speed limits and manage
them. incidents effectively.
When lanes are closed, signs display a red X Speed limits vary and are applied at times of
showing which lanes cannot be used. congestion, to prevent stop - start conditions.
If no speed limit is shown the national speed
Signs in the verge or above the carriageway limit applies.
advise you of the speed limit, any lane
closures and provide information on road
conditions such as severe weather.
new gantries
new signals
new CCTV cameras
traffic monitoring emergency areas
radar detector
message signs
lower noise surfacing
on some lanes
signs
concrete barriers
cross carriageway ducts technology ducting
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Better journeys
Smart motorways are an effective way Our M25 reports show after two years that all
to provide more capacity on our busiest lane running smart motorways are meeting our
motorways while maintaining safety and at a expectations; improved journey time reliability,
third of the cost of widening schemes, meaning reductions in collisions and casualty rates while
better value for the tax payer. being used by more vehicles.
All-lane running, which involves permanent The approach also supports economic
conversion of the hard shoulder as a live lane growth. The M56 junctions 6 to 8 scheme is
for traffic to use, provides an opportunity an important element of Highways England’s
to modernise and improve far more of our continuing plan to improve England’s motorway
motorways than under previous approaches. network.
A representation of what smart
motorways look like
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Emergency areas
Emergency areas provide an area of relative If you are driving at 60mph you will reach a
safety following a breakdown. place you can stop in an emergency every
75 seconds on average.
There will be 4 new emergency areas within
the M56 junctions 6 to 8 smart motorway There is an emergency telephone in each
scheme. Motorway service areas and hard emergency area. This connects you to
shoulders where available can also be used. Highways England’s Regional Control
Centres and pinpoints your location.
Remember to use the emergency telephone as this automatically pinpoints your location
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Incident management
Incidents such as accidents and manage traffic so that the people involved in
breakdowns are managed by our control the incidents are protected and an access
centre staff. route is cleared for emergency vehicles.
If the accident or breakdown means vehicles They then continue to monitor traffic
are unable to get off the carriageway conditions throughout each incident and re-
or reach an emergency area, we can open lanes as soon as it is safe to do so.
use technology to close any lane on the
motorway. We are working closely with the emergency
services to develop best practice as these
Control centre staff set signs to inform other major improvements are rolled out on our
road users about what is happening and motorways.
1 Incident detection
2 Emergency service on scene
3 Incident protection and clearing
4 Incident cleared and smart motorway re-opened
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Red signs
Red signs are used for safety reasons to
close lanes:
to protect road users who may have
broken down or been involved in an
incident.
to provide access and protection for the
emergency services, our traffic officers
and our road workers.
If you see a Red symbol on a gantry sign
over or at the side of the motorway it means
that the lane is closed for one or more of
these reasons.
Driving in a lane with a Red symbol is
illegal and dangerous and drivers must not A representation of a Red X
message sign on the verge
use it.
A representation of a Red X
message sign on a full gantry
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Environment
Highways England is committed to delivering The key issues considered include:
better environmental outcomes. In remaining
within current motorway boundaries, smart Understanding the presence of protected
motorways have the built-in advantage of species. Surveys have been undertaken for
minimising scheme environmental footprints. bats, badger, dormouse, great crested newt,
otter and water-vole.
In addition, we carry out thorough environmental
assessments to identify and assess potential Understanding potential changes to air
environmental impacts and recommend quality, particularly in relation to human
mitigation that can be included in the scheme to receptors and within air quality management
minimise them. areas.
The team has undertaken an environmental Minimising the loss of existing visual
assessment that covers topics including screening provided by vegetation where
noise and vibration, air quality, ecology and possible, and designing replacement
landscape and visual impacts. planting to reinforce visual screening for the
future.
The results will be presented in the
Environmental Study Report. This will also Understanding whether existing noise
describe the measures to mitigate adverse barriers need to be upgraded to ensure their
effects and enhance the environment for functionality remains and understanding
human and environmental receptors. potential noise and vibration changes and
identifying measures needed to minimise
A Construction Environmental Management disturbance to human and ecological
Plan will be prepared and used by the receptors.
contractor to avoid, minimise or mitigate
adverse construction effects on the
environment and surrounding communities
Great crested newts being
observed in nearby ponds
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Construction
Roadworks will be in place while we construct The main scheme works will involve
the smart motorway and we will do all we can installation of gantries and monitoring
to keep traffic moving and keep disruption to equipment, new drainage.
a minimum while we are working.
The construction of the scheme will be
It is anticipated that the traffic management governed by the Construction, Design and
in place will include the use of narrow Management Regulations. Further details
lanes, temporary safety barriers and speed will be provided on the scheme web page
restrictions to ensure the safety of the as it becomes available both before and
workforce and travelling public. In addition during construction.
to this, junction layouts may be temporarily
altered to allow for resurfacing and other Construction is planned to start in spring
improvement. 2019 and we expect to open the smart
motorway before the end of 2020.
If you live near the motorway, your view of the
M56 between junctions 6 and 8 may change Post-construction involves a period of testing
during construction as we will need to remove and commissioning of new technologies
some vegetation to build new gantries, but where there may be no appearance of work
this will be kept to a minimum. We will aim physically taking place. During this period,
to be replant where we can to help screen speed restrictions will be in place for safety
views of new motorway equipment. reasons before the scheme becomes fully
operational.
There will be temporary closures of the
carriageways at night on some occasions.
In these instances, clearly signed diversions
will be put in place and advance notice
given of the closures at the roadside and
Traffic England.
Working on building retaining
walls for EAs
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North West smart motorways
programme
As our region continues to see rapid growth, These include M56 junction 6 to 8, M62 junction
we are committed to ensuring our roads have 10-12, M6 junction - to 26 and M62 junction 20
the capacity to support it. That’s why we’re to 25.
creating over 100 miles of extra lanes to tackle
congestion and improve journey times in the We recognise this means there will be a
North West. significant amount of work taking place within
a short space of time but delivering it now will
Now the Manchester smart motorway (M60 allow us to improve journey times for all road
junction 8 to M62 junction 20) is fully operational users, reduce congestion and connect families,
and M6 junction 16 to 19 in Cheshire is well friends and businesses more quickly.
underway, we are progressing with four new
smart motorway schemes, which are worth We will be doing everything we can to keep
around £500 million and start being built disruption to a minimum during construction.
between summer 2018 and the end of 2019.
North West
M55
smart motorways programme
Burnley Bradford
Preston Blackburn M606
M65 Halifax
25
M6 M62
Southport Huddersfield
M61 M66
Rochdale
Bolton Starting autumn 2019
20
Open A627(M)
M58 Wigan 18
26
Opening spring 2020 M60 M60
Crosby Manchester
12
10 M67
M57 Starting spring 2019
8
21a
10 M62 M60
Liverpool
Warrington
M62 Stockport
Widnes M56
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A556
Runcorn
19
Starting spring 2019
M53 M56 Knutsford
Northwich Macclesfield
M6 Buxton
Chester Opening spring 2019
Middlewich
Sandbach
Leek
Crewe
Nantwich 16
Stoke-on-Trent MCR18_0018
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