The new dual carriageway has only been open for a year
More than 100,000 journeys a week are being made on Preston’s newest road, the Local Democracy Reporting Service can reveal. The Preston Western Distributor Road – now officially known as Edith Rigby Way – opened a year ago this month.
The results of a recent traffic count – which were obtained by the LDRS – show that 17,000 vehicles use Edith Rigby Way each weekday. More than 100,000 vehicles are taking to the new road each week, including at weekends. Work on the scheme – the budget for which more than doubled from £104m when it was first conceived – began in autumn 2019.
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