MOTORISTS are set for months' more misery as one of Liverpool's busiest roads faces the diggers.
The Strand is set to be dug up as the latest stage of the Big Dig comes to the city's streets.
New access points are needed for the Grosvenor shopping development and the Kings Dock and council bosses want to improve the traffic flow past the Three Graces.
Liverpool council and Laing O'Rourke, the building firm working on the Paradise Project, were due to unveil the full details - part of the notorious Big Dig - later today.
But the ECHO can reveal it includes a £5m project to improve the section of The Strand between Water Street and James Street.
The works, due to start in May and initially lasting about four months, will see lanes closed -although city leaders will pledge to keep traffic flowing.
Other elements include:
* Creating a new right turn from the Mersey tunnel exit.
* Major construction on the partly-built underground car park at the former Chavasse Park.
* Further work on the Kings Dock arena and Pier Head canal link projects.
A second phase of work on The Strand is scheduled to start in April 2007.
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