Transport Minister Baroness Kramer gave approval today for work on the A5758 Broom’s Cross road (Thornton to Switch Island Link) scheme to start.
The Government is putting up £14.5m of the total cost to help ease congestion and cut pollution on some of Sefton’s busiest roads.
Balfour will build a 2.6-mile single carriageway road between the A565 Southport Road, Thornton and the M57/M58 Switch Island junction, bypassing the local communities of Netherton and Thornton north of Liverpool.
It will improve access between the north to west motorway system and Southport, as well as to the Port of Liverpool and development sites in the area.
The A5758 Broom’s Cross Road (Thornton to Switch Island Link) scheme was one of the schemes given funding approval in 2011 as part of the Spending Review process. Work can now start on the initial elements of the scheme.
Works will be complete by October 2014.