Residents near M6 expansion offered screens

Jun 23 2009 by Chris Henwood, Birmingham Post

Black Country residents fighting plans to widen a motorway yards from their homes are to be offered screens and trees to block noise and pollution.

The Highways Agency has agreed to the measures around a new Emergency Refuge Area on the M6 in Walsall following talks with residents of Murdock Way, Beechdale.

The agency plans to use the hard shoulder as an extra lane.