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 Blackburn Road passing an industrial estate in Clayton-le-Moors | |
| Major junctions | |
| West end | Blackburn |
| Major intersections |  A679 A6119 M65 A680 A6068 A671 |
| East end | Padiham |
| Location | |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Constituent country | England |
| Road network | |
TheA678 is a road inLancashire,England, which runs between the towns ofBlackburn andPadiham.
The road was formerly the main route between Blackburn andBurnley before it wasbypassed by theM65 motorway which opened in the 1980s. It currently runs between the A6078 Blackburn Town Centre Orbital Route and theA671 in Padiham, via the small towns ofRishton andClayton-le-Moors, having been extended at the Blackburn end when theA677 was renumbered east of Blackburn. Within Blackburn the road is aprimary route. It forms the main route for traffic arriving in Blackburn from other towns inEast Lancashire andWest Yorkshire, as it connects the town centre with the M65 junction 6 atWhitebirk. The Red Lion roundabout at Whitebirk, where the A678 joins theA6119, withslip roads to the M65, had become prone totraffic congestion[1] since the M65 was extended in 1997, and was recently upgraded with the addition oftraffic lights.[2]
The A678 is the main road through Rishton and is called Blackburn Road, High Street and Hermitage Street. It crosses the A680 at a set of traffic lights in Clayton-le-Moors and then passes throughAltham before it reaches the A6068, and then the A671 in Padiham. Although most of the road between Whitebirk and Padiham is bypassed by the M65 and is no longer a primary route it is considered byHyndburn Borough Council to be one of the district's primary roads according to itsLocal Plan. and provides access toindustrial estates in Altham.[3]
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