DRIVERS using the M6 are being advised there’ll be some overnight carriageway closures over the next week as part of work to upgrade the motorway.

National Highways is adding an extra running lane along both the northbound and southbound M6 between junction 21a and junction 26, Croft and Orrell interchanges. 

Traffic management within the roadworks between junction 23 at Haydock and junction 26 at Orrell is being adjusted this month.

To allow this to happen the northbound carriageway will be closed between junction 23 and junction 26 from 9pm to 6am on Monday, February 14. 

The southbound carriageway will then be closed from junction 26 to juncion 23 between 9pm and 6am each night on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 15, 16 and 17 February.

A diversion for the closures will operate west of the M6 using the A580, A570 and M58.

The overnight carriageway closures will be followed by some 9pm to 6am  lane and slip road closures on the following dates:

Friday, February 18 (southbound M6 at junction 26 with lane and entry and exit slip road closures);

Sunday, February 20 (northbound M6 at junction 26 with lane and exit and entry slip road closures);

Tuesday and Wednesday, February 22 and 23 (southbound entry slip road and lane closures at junction 25);

Thursday and Friday, February 24 and 25 (southbound exit slip road closure and lane closures at junction 24).