Weston Link closure
Motorists driving through Runcorn are being advised a busy road will be partly closed for 10 days while important investigations take place.
The northbound carriageway of Weston Link will be closed, from the Weston Point Expressway slip road, and will affect the entry onto both the A533 northbound Central Expressway, and A533 eastbound Southern Expressway.
These routes will be closed from Saturday 20 September until Tuesday 30 September, while United Utilities engineers undertake some additional road investigation work in this area following a request from National Grid. Read more →
Local community to benefit from Merseylink Time Bank
Five community organisations in Halton are set to receive expert assistance from Merseylink’s bridge-building team.
West Bank Community Centre, Daresbury Primary School, Riverside College, Milner Church Institute and the Mersey Gateway Environmental Trust have all been successful in their applications to the first round of the Merseylink Time Bank. Read more →
Halton student joins the Merseylink team
A university student from Halton has become the latest addition to the Merseylink team.
Halton student Louise Cash joins the Merseylink team
Louise Cash, 20, has joined Merseylink, which is responsible for delivering the £600m new bridge project between Runcorn and Widnes, on a year-long paid internship as the project’s volunteer coordinator. Read more →
Mersey Gateway project looking for local volunteers
Local residents from Halton and the surrounding area are being invited to become volunteers and be part of the ‘once in a lifetime’ Mersey Gateway Bridge project.
Merseylink is holding a volunteer information day on Tuesday 2 September 2014 at 5.45pm in the Kingsway Learning Centre in Widnes to give potential volunteers an idea of the role they could play.
So far around 40 local people have enrolled as volunteers with Merseylink. The construction consortium is seeking hundreds more to join the project team and help to tell the story of Halton and the £600m bridge – one of the largest building projects in the UK – over the next three and a half years. Read more →