The six month closure of a main transport route in to Liverpool will not go ahead until Scotland Road reopens in full.
It was revealed on Tuesday that the Great Howard Street would closed for at least six months in order to allow for £32m roadworks to take place.
Liverpool council has today confirmed that it will make sure Scotland Road was fully open by the time work on Great Howard Street starts.
Councillor Malcolm Kennedy, illness Liverpool council’s cabinet member for regeneration, said: “This scheme is absolutely essential if we are to keep the city moving and make it an attractive place to come and do business.
“We need to invest in our infrastructure so we are able to handle the increasing amount of businesses, freight and people travelling to and through Liverpool.
“This is especially important on this route due to the completion of the new Liverpool 2 deep water port which is absolutely critical to the future economic success of the city region and will help create and support many jobs.
“The work will remove a bottle neck on the A565 by making it dual carriageway along the entire route and also make it more attractive with improved paving and street lighting.
“This is just one element of the work which will be going on right across the city over the next few years to fix the road network and deal with decades of underinvestment.”