London . Urban Motorway
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THE line of the proposed Hendon urban motorway, for which a draft scheme was published earlier this year, has now been fixed, but it is not yet known when building will begin. The urban motorway, will start about a mile north of A406, the North Circular Road, at Page Street, Hendon, where Al and A41 at present converge. From here it will run northwards past Mill Hill Broadway station, under the Watford By-pass (called Edgware Way at this point) just west of Apex corner and then will sweep westwards to Edgwarebury Lane.
Continuation Scheme Simultaneously with this announcement, the Minister of Transport has published a draft scheme for the eventual continuation of this urban motorway northwards as far as Aldenham where it will join MI at a new two-level junction superseding the present roundabout just south-cast of Watford, at Berrygrove on A41. In fact this proposed 3/4-mile extension will cross A41 and AS close to their present intersection (just west of Elstree), crossing A41 again before joining the present M1 at Berrygrove.
These extensions, totalling 81 miles, will provide motorway travel to within about five miles of the centre of London; no firm plans exist for a motorway extension southwards right into London, but the Minister is considering improvements to the junction between A5 and the North Circular Road at Staples Corner.
New By-pass
THE A41 route, which carries much heavy traffic between South Staffordshire and Birkenhead, is to have a threemile by-pass to divert traffic from Albrighton and the hamlet of Kingswood, in Shropshire, some six miles from Wolverhampton.
The Minister of Transport has authorized Shropshire County Council to accept a £261.829 tender for the constructional work from the Cementation Co., Ltd.