Northern Motorway Route Published
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PROPOSED lines for the remaining two sections of the BirminghamLancaster motorway were published last week. These sections will cover a distance of 43 miles and establish the entire route for the 141-mile motorway.
One 13-mile section will link the Lancaster by-pass, due to be finished next May, with the existing Preston bypass. It will run east of the A6 and will have no intermediate junctions.
The second proposed section extends the motorway some 30 miles southwards and eastwards from Dunston, passing between Wolverhampton, West Bromwich a21
and Birmingham on the west and Walsall and Sutton Coldfield on the east.
The London end of MI, where it joins the Watford by-pass, Opened on Monday. This last 24-mile section extends from the junction with A405 at Waterdaie to the junction with the Watford by-pass at Berrygrove.
With the completion of the Watford leg, a series of new white-on-blue direction signs will he brought into use to direct traffic to the motorway at Aldenham. Signposting will extend from the North Circular Road on A41 and from Highgate Archway on Al.