National Highways are set to commence six weeks of road works on the A66 that will include ten nights of closures for the repairs to the road surface on the A66 between Sandford junction and Brough junction.
National Highways are spending more than £2m on strengthening and resurfacing the road to improve safety on the A66 and reliably.
Work starts on Tuesday 29 August 2023 and will take approximately six weeks to complete. During this six-week period, National Highways will close two sections of the A66 over ten nights to resurface the road.
Full carriageway closures on the A66 will be put in place between Sandford junction and Brough junction will take place overnight, between 8pm and 6am, over the following dates:
Sunday 3 to Thursday 7 September 2023 - five consecutive nights
Sunday 10 to Thursday 14 September 2023 - five consecutive nights
The only diversion route suitable for heavy goods vehicles during the full closures is via the A1, A69 and M6.
Diversion routes will be signposted, but smaller vehicles may choose to use local network roads around the closure points, leaving the A66 at Sandford junction or the Brough junction with the A685.
At other times during the six-week maintenance scheme, the A66 will remain open to traffic but operate under a convoy system between 8pm and 6am.
National Highways have said “In total, we will need four weeks of overnight convoy working, between Monday and Friday nights only.”
This will see vehicles temporarily held at traffic lights on the A66 before a shuttle vehicle can safely escort drivers through the roadworks at a restricted speed limit of 10mph.
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