Cadent, which manages the North West’s gas network, has undertaken essential repairs to the metallic main under Waterloo Road – one of the oldest working gas mains in Liverpool dating back to 1850

A two-week closure of part of Liverpool’s historic Dock Road ended on Sunday evening (January 20) as essential works on a Victorian gas main came to an end.

Cadent, which manages the North West’s gas network, has undertaken essential repairs to the metallic main under Waterloo Road – one of the oldest working gas mains in Liverpool dating back to 1850 – near to its junction with Paisley Street.

And as part of a multi-million upgrade to Waterloo and Regent Road, council contractors Osborne will finish the latest stretch of a new pedestrian and cycle route to the junction with Sandhill’s Lane.

The following day, after Monday’s morning peak hour, the city centre-bound lanes on the adjacent Derby Road (A565) were closed to traffic for one week, from the junction of Miller’s Bridge in Bootle to Bank Hall.

There will also be four-way temporary signals in operation as the new junction is finalised. This closure marks the latest phase in the creation of a new £22m dual carriageway for the A565, which will complete in Autumn 2019.

Motorists travelling in to Liverpool from Bootle will be guided by a series of road diversions – with drivers guided to use the Stanley Road, Commercial Road and Vauxhall Road corridors into the city centre.

Cllr James Noakes, Cabinet Member for Highways, said: “The North Liverpool corridor is a hugely complex highways scheme involving an immense amount of engineering works on two major roads at the same time.

“To ensure traffic flows this scheme can only be carried out by a phased approach which means some weeks there are full road closures and some weeks just lane closures.”