A5036 road
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The A5036 is a road in Merseyside, England, which comprises two separate sections separated by a gap of around 1.6 miles (2.6 km)[1].
The northern section is a 4-mile (6.4 km) section of trunk road. It runs between the A565 in Seaforth through Litherland before terminating at the Switch Island junction in Netherton. This is an important route for road freight between the docks and the motorway network. It is a dual carriageway throughout, and in 2011 was "one of the busiest roads in Europe".[2] It served an average of 14,000 to 26,000 vehicles daily between 1999 and 2005.[3]
In March 2015, improvement works were completed on the roundabout at Litherland to reduce congestion by separating through trunk road traffic from local traffic, at a cost of £3.4m.[4]
The southern section of the A5036 route runs from Bootle docks, via the waterfront of central Liverpool to Brunswick railway station in Dingle.
A former part of the A5036 between Bootle and Seaforth is now part of the internal roadway system of the docks, accounting for part of the gap between the two sections of route.
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53°28′42″N 2°58′31″W / 53.47842°N 2.97525°W
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- ^ http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/wiki/index.php?title=A5036
- ^ http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/port-liverpool-200m-road-plan-3357549
- ^ http://breathingspace.sefton.gov.uk/Default.aspx?bsPage=traffic_count&option=4&step=2&MonId=499&StartMonth=1&StartYear=1999&EndMonth=1&EndYear=2012
- ^ http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20150602122918/http://www.highways.gov.uk/roads/road-projects/a5036-bridge-road-sefton-improvements/