 As Watery Lane, it becomes a dual carriageway and acts as a bypass for the Riversway Docklands and the Ashton-on-Ribble area.After becoming Riversway, it then merges with the A5085 Blackpool Road and continues west as Blackpool Road, shortly before the A584 branches off towards Lytham St Annes.The road passes around the villages of Clifton and Newton-with-Scales as Blackpool Road before reaching the market town of Kirkham.