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Air quality drives 60mph limit on dualled road

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05 September 2014
 

TRAFFIC ON a new dual carriageway between the M6 and Manchester is to be restricted to 60mph, rather than 70, on air quality grounds. 

Transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin last week granted  powers for the proposed 4.7-mile A556 trunk road improvement between M6 junction 19, near Knutsford, and the M56 junction 7, near Bowdon in Greater Manchester. The existing single carriageway road, which has a 50mph limit, carries about 50,000 vehicles a day and is the only section of...

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