To help maintain the safety on the roads of Runcorn, there are facilities, which are installed to help slow vehicles on closed (normally between 20 and 30m/hr limits) streets.
The most common form of traffic control is the instalment of speed bumps/ramps, these are equipped in many places as some residents of certain areas potition for these as they believe they are required in their loacal area. These speed bumps force many vehicles to slow down on approach to avoid damage if approached at high speeds.
Another not-so common form of traffic and transport control is chicanes; these drastically force all vehicles to slow down, forming a slalom that is hard to conquer. This prevents less accidents and less stress for the residents living in the area of instalment. Chicanes have been proven to be highly effective.
Surrounding Runcorn is the local expressway, this is uncommon in many places, this makes it an almost unique feature of Runcorn. The expressway leads onto the M56. Runcorn proudly owns the Widnes Bridge, this enables residents of Runcorn to travel out of town to shop, e.g. Widnes and Warrington. The Runcorn/Widnes Bridge is the largest of its kind know in the entire country.
Originally, the Runcorn/Widnes Bridge was built out of iron, this was good at the time as the material was cheap to achieve, but now, the bridge needs to be continuously painted to “galvanise” it, this means that it is a protective coating to all the elements.
There is a bus way that directly links to the shopping city, as well as a public road. Trident retail Park owns an incredibly large, one level car park to accommodate all the incoming shoppers.
Halton Lea Shopping City owns a multi story car park to accommodate all of its shoppers. There are 10 stories in all to the Shopping City car park, all the different zones of the car park correlate with the different shopping zones inside the centre
The transport facilities are well equipped and are many varied in present day Runcorn.
