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The Project Control Framework
On 1st April 2008 we launched the Project Control Framework. The Framework sets out how we, together with the Department for Transport, manage and deliver major improvement projects.
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Project Background and Previous Options Considered
The A500, known locally as the Potteries “D” Road is a dual carriageway with two lanes in each direction, which joins the M6 motorway at either end at Junctions 15 and 16. Most junctions on the A500 have flyovers or underpasses except for the roundabouts at Stoke Road and City Road, which form the central section of the “D” Road.
This section of the A500 known as Queensway was constructed over a period of 3 years starting in December 1974 and was originally intended to have the A500 passing over Stoke Road on a flyover and beneath City Road in an underpass. However the underpass and flyover were omitted and roundabouts built instead.
In August 1993, a proposal was published to add the flyover at Stoke Road and the underpass at City Road and to widen the section of road between them. Before publication an alternative proposal, with an underpass at Stoke Road junction, had been considered but was rejected on the grounds of cost. Further development of the project was then suspended during a review of the road programme by the Government.
The project was announced in the Targeted Programme of Improvements in 1998 as the A500 Stoke Pathfinder Project. The current proposals, illustrated on the fold out plan, at the back of this leaflet include underpasses at both City Road and Stoke Road junctions and have been developed by Edmund Nuttall Ltd, who are the design and build contractor appointed by the Highways Agency.
