Section of motorway to shut for weekend for bridge demolition

A section of the M67 motorway is to close for a weekend while demolition begins on an ‘outdated’ road bridge.

National Highways is replacing St Anne’s road bridge over the motorway near Denton in Tameside in a £23m project.

During the first phase of the demolition a section of the M67 motorway will be closed from 9pm on Friday, August 18 to 5am on Monday, August 21 – with the motorway also closed between junction 1A at Denton and junction 3 at Hyde during these times.

The road bridge, between junction 1A and junction 2 of the motorway, connects people to the A57 south of the M67, and is being replaced in a the three year project, which began in January.

It is currently closed until its demolition and construction of a replacement bridge is completed.

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National Highways says the closure of the motorway next weekend will allow teams to ‘safely’ cut out a section of the bridge at its eastern side and remove it from site without ‘endangering road users on the motorway below’.

During the weekend motorway closure local diversions will be in place including using the A57 which is parallel to the M67.

Drivers travelling between Manchester (M60) and the A57 Snake Pass and A628 are being asked to follow a signed diversion running north of the M67 between junction 24 of the M60 and Mottram in Longdendale – using the A635 and and A6018 via Ashton-under-Lyne and Stalybrdge.

National Highways say drivers on longer, through journeys should also considering using the alternative M62 trans-Pennine route between Manchester and Leeds.

Mangat Bansal, National Highways’ programme delivery manager, said: “We’re making very good progress with our