Grand National Festival 2022: road closures, road works and travel advice for Aintree Racecourse

Sefton and Liverpool will welcome countless numbers of site visitors when the Grand Countrywide Festival commences at Aintree Racecourse this 7 days.

Sefton Council, along with Merseyside Law enforcement and Merseytravel, have put in location a quantity of measures to support pageant goers get to and from Aintree as effortlessly as achievable during the weekend.

Regretably, that suggests a number of diversions and highway closures will be in place during the festival’s 3 times, from Thursday, April 7, to Saturday, April 9.

Inhabitants who are not attending the competition are encouraged to stay away from the A59 Ormskirk Road from Change Island through to the Black Bull junction.

Ormskirk Road, as properly as Park Lane involving Bridle Road and Ormskirk Street, will be closed concerning 4pm and 9pm on all a few festival times.

Hefty targeted visitors is predicted on the A59 from 10am – 2pm.

During the closure, visitors will be diverted through Change Island, Dunnings Bridge Highway, Netherton Way and Southport Highway.

Liverpool City Council have also confirmed that road works on County Street will be paused for the duration of the world’s most well known horse racing competition.

Considering the fact that February, the street in L4 has been closed right away from 7pm to 6am for upgrading but the closures from Spellow Lane to Hale Road will be paused just after Wednesday evening.

People wishing to show up at the Grand Countrywide are inspired to use the Merseyrail network and alight at Aintree station.

Immediately after the racing finishes on both equally Friday and Saturday buses will be operating from Park Lane into Liverpool town centre.

A spokesman for Sefton Council mentioned: “We are delighted to see the return of a community Aintree Pageant soon after remaining afflicted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

“We are performing closely with partners to support continue to keep the borough shifting for the duration of the competition and to keep disruption to a bare minimum.”

“The weekend brings thousands of racegoers, visitors and website visitors to our lovely borough and at the time yet again all eyes will be on Sefton as the house of extraordinary intercontinental functions.

We would check with website visitors who are in the area for a range of times to check out and discover our superb borough even even further.”