The beginning of the dual carriageway section of the A583 is at these signals in Riversway Docklands. The limit eventually rises to 40mph as the road leaves urban Preston.

A very leafy dual carriageway it is too - Preston has some excellent approaches from the south and west in terms of tree lined roads.

The speed limit is usually 50mph from here on, but due to roadworks in Summer 2007 there was a temporary 40 limit for some distance, with a 30 limit through the work area.

The trees open out and numerous electricity pylons appear as well as retail units on the south of the road. 

A temporary speed camera was in place during the roadworks. Normally, the A583 merges with the A5085 (Preston's original northern bypass although it has been signed as Ring Road in places). The main traffic route is the A5085 so this makes sense.

Lane closures in order to protect the work area around an accommodation bridge. This short section of the A583 was presumably grade seperated before the M55, it would seem redundant to have been done later.

The dual carriageway comes to end after the accommodation bridge that was being strengthened. The white car was legitimately entering the work area, as it was a maintainence vehicle.

Traffic for the A583 must now use the right hand lane only, originally both lanes continued straight ahead.

The nature of the road is shown clearly in this photograph.

The new lane arrangements are in view here, although the original markings have been poorly removed. What is noticable is the abbreviations on the road - these look a little cumbersome.

A section of four lane single carriageway has been reduced to two lanes around a staggered junction. This has been done on safety grounds as there was no turn refuge and on such a road little margin for error. It is, however, a shame that it means another section of four lane road has been removed from the UK.

Efforts to remove the markings have not exactly proven to be successful here.

After the junction the four lanes reappear.

There are numerous junctions along the route, some signalised and some at roundabouts. Some retain four lanes through the junctions, others narrow down before and widen after.

A good view of the road's design is available here.

Another view of the four lane configuration along the A583.

A short dual carriageway section of the A583 exists near Kirkham. This has seen some modifications to prevent a right turn and allow u-turns via a roundabout in recent years.

The A585 here offers access to Fleetwood bypassing Blackpool to the east via the 1970s Amounderness Way.