Motorway Database

Until recently the M69 was most notorious for its old, noisy and uncomfortable concrete surface - luckily this was recently replaced. Now it's just the motorway between Leicester and Coventry without any memorable features.

Bigger things were planned for this road, since at the Leicester end it seems to finish at an incomplete junction. Before the northern end the carriageways split quite a way apart, leaving room for a northern extension, while the actual motorway swerves east to the M1 roundabout. North of here, the motorway was planned to cross the M1 and connect to the A563 Leicester Outer Ring Road close to its junction with the A47. There would have been access between the M1 to the north and M69 to the south by way of a 270-degree loop. Local opposition to this plan halted it, though a multi-modal study now reccommends using the unfinished end to provide free-flow access to road north.

Additionally, inside information reveals that when the M69 was planned, the intention was to continue it south from Coventry, forming what is now the eastern bypass, and continue to connect to the end of the M50 at Strensham. The plan was scrapped and replaced with the M42 - and early plans had a route from M42 J3a to the M50 as well.

None of this, of course, ever saw light of day, leaving this road to save Leicester and Coventry traffic from having to drive through Nuneaton. As a result the six lanes of the M69 are very rarely congested.

Factfile

Start	Coventry (M6)
Finish	Leicester (M1)
Passes	Nuneaton, Hinckley
Length	16 miles
Terminates	None
Spurs	None
Meets	None

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Construction Timeline

When the various parts of the M69 were built, listed in chronological order.

Open	Jct	Section
1976	J2-M1	Leicester section
1977	J0-2	Coventry section

Exit List

All the junctions and destinations along the route.

Junction	Northbound				Southbound
(M1 J21)	The NORTH Nottingham M1 The SOUTH Northampton M1 Leicester A5460 (A563)	M1	*NORTH* A5460 (A563)	M1	N/A
(M1 J21)		M1	*NORTH* A5460 (A563)	M1
	1 mile, 2 lanes				1 mile, 2 lanes


	9 miles, 3 lanes				6 miles, 3 lanes
2		B4669		B4669	Hinckley B4669
2		B4669		B4669
					3 miles, 3 lanes
1	Hinckley B4109 Nuneaton A5	B4109 A5		A5 B4109	Hinckley B4109 Nuneaton A5
1		B4109 A5		A5 B4109
	6 miles, 3 lanes				6 miles, 3 lanes
(M6 J2)	N/A	M6 A4600	A46 *SOUTH*	B4065 M6	Coventry (S) Leamington Spa A46 (A45) The SOUTH Rugby M6 Coventry (Cen) A4600 Coventry (N) Birmingham M6
(M6 J2)		M6 A4600	A46 *SOUTH*	B4065 M6