Motorway closure as M54 bridge goes up
Seven miles of the M54 closes overnight tomorrow as a bridge goes up.
Drivers will have a 14-mile diversion as a bridge is put in place, a week later than originally planned.
Closure is from 8pm tomorrow until about 10am on Sunday in both directions between junction 2 at Coven Heath and junction 3 near Albrighton.
It comes three months after a 50-ton skeleton of a bridge arrived at the i54 business park, Fordhouses.
It replaces one in Middle Lane giving access to waste water treatment works also used as a footpath and a bridleway. The existing bridge will stay open until its replacement is completed.
The old bridge has to move for a £36.7 million slip road to connect the M54 with the i54, where Jaguar Land Rover is building a £355 million engine plant and creating 750 jobs.
Diversions will be on the A449 to Gailey, onto the A5 and then the A41 to get back to Junction 3 – an overall journey of about 14 miles.
