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A500 road

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A500 road
Direction North - South/East-West (Part Circular)
Start Nantwich
Primary
destinations
Crewe
Kidsgrove
Stoke-on-Trent
End Clayton
Construction began 1962
Construction ended 2006
Roads joined M6 motorway
A34 road
A50 road
A52 road
A53 road
A527 road

The A500 is a major road in Staffordshire and Cheshire, England. It is dual carriageway for most of its length and connects Nantwich, junctions 16 and 15 of the M6 motorway with the city of Stoke-on-Trent. Because of its shape between the motorway junctions, it is known locally as the D-Road.

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[edit] Route

A500 Shavington bypass.
A500 Shavington bypass.
Part of the original A500 near Audley.
Part of the original A500 near Audley.
The city road junction as originally built.
The city road junction as originally built.
Single carrigeway bypass of Nantwich.
Single carrigeway bypass of Nantwich.

The road is the primary access route for traffic to and from almost all areas of Stoke-on-Trent. It runs to the south of Newcastle, then turns north to pass between Stoke and Fenton before passing through the disused Wolstanton Colliery before turning east through Talke Pits before crossing the M6 at junction 16. It continues south of Crewe before turning north around Nantwich where it ends.

[edit] History

The A500 was initially built from the M6 motorway at junction 16 to the A34 road at Talke. At the southern end, a dual carriageway was constructed from junction 15 of the M6 to the A34 near Trentham and this was given the number A5006. The road was then subsequently extended from Talke to the A53 road. The final section from the A34 in the south to the A53 junction was built between 1974 and 1977.[1] The two middle junctions were to be grade separated, but due to financial constraints they were built as roundabouts. This final section was named Queensway. On completion the whole route became the A500.

The route remained unchanged until the 1980s when the Hanford Roundabout junction had a flyover built as this was a major bottleneck for both the A500 and A34. The 1977 section east of this junction had been built with provision for the bridge, but the section built as the A5006 required realignment for the new interchange. In the late 1980s the road was extended from Junction 16 to close to Weston with connections provided to existing roads to Keele and Crewe. The A52, which at that time ran to Nantwich, was renumbered from Newcastle to Weston as a B road and the section from Weston to Nantwich was incorporated into the A500. In 1989 a bypass to the west of Nantwich was opened, extending the A500 from the south of Nantwich to its current northerly terminus with the A51.[2]

In 1993 a proposal was made to add the missing flyover and underpass close to Stoke-on-Trent railway station, with another plan having already been dropped due to the cost. However, to allow a full review of the national roads programme this scheme was suspended.[1] In 1997 the A50 was rerouted through Stoke-on-Trent to meet the A500 at Sideway. This led to a large increase in traffic using the Stoke section of the road - in some sections it carries 60,000 vehicles per day.

On the approach to Hough was a narrow single lane bridge which was added to with a Bailey bridge in 1993.[3] In September 2003, the Shavington bypass opened to reroute the road away from three villages on the former A52 section.[4] This was built to dual carriageway standards with provision for further junctions to new development sites.

In 2002 a local pressure group proposed that the Nantwich bypass should be renumbered as the A51 to keep traffic out of the town centre.[5]

Work began on 16th February, 2004 on the A500 Pathfinder Project to replace the final two roundabouts in Stoke with underpasses. The project involved alterations to the path of the Trent and Mersey Canal and River Trent, along with new provisions for pedestrians. The work was carried out by Edmund Nuttall Limited and was planned to be completed in Spring 2006. Following a number of delays[6] the road opened on Tuesday 26th September 2006, with the southbound traffic in the morning and northbound traffic in the afternoon..[7]

[edit] Junctions

A500 Road
Northbound* exits Junction Southbound* exits
Tarporley, Chester
Nantwich A51
Wrexham (A534)
Worleston B5074
Nantwich, Middlewich A530
Nantwich, Crewe A534
Stone A51
Wybunbury
Nantwich, Stone A51
End of dual carriageway
Cheerbrook Roundabout Start of dual carriageway
Crewe, Shavington B5071 Crewe, Shavington B5071
No exits No exits
Start of dual carriageway Crewe, Weston A5020
Keele A531
End of dual carriageway
Crewe, Weston A5020
Keele A531
The NORTH WEST, Preston
The SOUTH, Birmingham M6
Radway Green B5078
The NORTH WEST, Preston
The SOUTH, Birmingham M6
Radway Green B5078
End of dual carriageway
M6 J16 Start of dual carriageway
Audley, Alsager Audley, Alsager
Newcastle-under-Lyme
Talke, Congleton A34
Newcastle-under-Lyme
Talke, Kidsgrove, Congleton A34
Kidsgrove A527 (A50) Tunstall A527
Wolstanton A527
Longport, Tunstall, Burslem A5271
Wolstanton A527
Longport, Tunstall, Burslem A5271
Supermarket Supermarket
Newcastle-under-Lyme
Hanley, Leek A53
Newcastle-under-Lyme
Hanley, Leek A53
Shelton B5045 No exit
No exit Stoke Road Junction Hanley, Stoke A52
Fenton, Longton A5007
No exit No exit
Hanley, Stoke A52
Fenton, Longton A5007
City Road Junction No exit
No exit Heron Cross
Longton, Uttoxeter, Derby A50 Uttoxeter, Derby A50
Sideway
Sideway No exit
Stone, Trentham
Trent Vale, Newcastle-under-Lyme A34
Hanford Roundabout Stone, Trentham
Trent Vale, Newcastle-under-Lyme A34
Start of road M6 J15 The NORTH WEST, Preston
The SOUTH, Birmingham M6
Eccleshall
Newcastle-Under-Lyme A519
*The route runs in a semi-circular direction in Stoke-On-Trent. The table has its northern terminus at the top

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A roads in Zone 5 of
the Great Britain road numbering system
A5 A50 - A51 - A52 - A53 - A54 - A55 - A56 - A57 - A58 - A59
A500 - A501 - A505 - A508 - A509 - A511 - A512 - A514 - A518 - A519
A525 - A528 - A530 - A533 - A556 - A562 - A563 - A565 - A570 - A574 - A580 - A583
A590 - A591 -A592 - A594 - A595 - A596 -
A5012 - A5025 - A5036 - A5038
A5103 - A5112 - A5117 - A5124 - A5127 - A5130
A5183 - A5199 - A5300
List of A roads in Zone 5
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