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The A5758 (also known as the A5758 Broom's Cross Road or the Thornton to Switch Island Link road) is a 2.8 mile (4.5 km) road, constructed during 2014-2015 and linking the A565 road in Thornton to Switch Island junction. The route is constructed as a 10 metre wide, two lane single carriageway with 1m wide hardstrips and a 2.5 metre wide verge, with a 50 mph speed limit. The road has some sections on low embankment and others in shallow cutting where it runs close to existing residential properties, but is mostly close to existing ground level. Surface drainage is collected by a kerb and gully system and discharged into four new attenuation ponds. The route is only lit where there are specific safety reasons for doing so, such as junctions and crossings along the route. There are no footways along the route other than specific pedestrian crossing points. Sefton Council gave their approval in September 2013 with construction starting towards the end of the 2013 calendar year. The cost is in the region of £19.5m〔 with the UK Government contributing £14.5m towards that and Sefton Council contributing £5m.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Thornton to Switch Island link )〕 The new road is named the A5758 Broom's Cross Road. Broom's Cross is the site of a medieval wayside cross near Thornton with the road numbering referencing the two motorways the road links up to, the M57 and M58 motorway respectively. ==Development== The road has had almost unanimous community support during public consultations in recent years. The need for an improved route between Switch Island and the main Southport Road was first identified as far back as 1968, during planning for the M57, M58 and M62 motorways. Soon after the motorways opened, a number of proposals to allow traffic to bypass Thornton and Netherton were developed, given increased road traffic over the years that followed added to the congestion throughout Thornton. Four different options were put forward in the early 1990s to ease the congestion. Amongst these suggestions were plans to fell woodlands in Ince Woods and disturb land around St Joseph's Hospice in Thornton. The suggestion eventually identified by councillors as their preferred plan was ultimately rejected at a public inquiry in 1995. Five years later in 2000, a public consultation began which proposed six possible options, with agreement eventually being reached in 2003 on a new single carriageway road link between Switch Island and the A565 Southport Road, Thornton. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「A5758 road」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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