MOTORISTS face disruption when a half-a-mile stretch of the M53 near Ellesmere Port closes tonght for essential repairs.

Contractors for Highways England need to resurface, re-waterproof and install new safety barriers on the bridges which carry the motorway over Upper Mersey Street and the Shropshire Union Canal.


The southbound carriageway will be closed between junctions 8 and 9 from 8pm tonight until 6am on Monday.


The northbound carriageway is also due to be closed during the same times the following weekend.

A diversion will take vehicles along the A5032, which runs alongside the motorway, and road users are being advised to allow extra time for their journeys.

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got caught in it Saturday late afternoon coming back from Chester. They were diverting traffic off motorway.

Bridge repairs M53: the Highways Authority must be really frightened! They have been working there for the last few months anyway.