Highways Agency

• A500 basford hough shavington bypass
• recent activities
• recent activities
• Executive summary
• 1. introduction
• 2. data collected
• 3. summary of results
• 4. conclusion

A500 Basford, Hough, Shavington Bypass

1. Introduction

1. This report provides the results of a Before and After monitoring exercise carried out to evaluate the effects of the recently opened A500 Basford, Hough, Shavington, Bypass.
2. The A500 Basford, Hough, Shavington Bypass was officially opened on Thursday 22nd May 2003. It is a dual carriageway road with a junction on Crewe Road just north of Shavington village. A second junction further east is open, but a link road to it is planned for 2005, which will serve new developments in and around Weston.
3. Other local schemes being built are a link road from the south side of the Nantwich bypass onto the Newcastle Road which links directly to the west end of the new bypass, and the Crewe Green link road. This latter scheme is to be built in two stages. Stage 1 of the scheme is from the A5020 near Crewe Hall to the junction of the A534, A532 & B5077 and is due to open in the near future. Stage 2 links with the new A500 scheme (estimated completion 2010).
4. 'Before' and 'After' traffic data for the corridor was collected immediately prior to and after the opening date in order to prepare a Traffic Impact Study (TIS) on the effects of the scheme opening. In addition, traffic flow data from Highways Agency and Cheshire County Council count sites has also been used to evaluate the effects of the opening of the Bypass on strategic traffic routing patterns in the area.
5. Section 2 of this report discusses the data collected as part of the TIS study. Sections 3 and 4 summarise the main results and conclusions.