It doesn't take a genius to work out that we could all do with a few more motorways. Where would you build a new road?
Send in your suggestions, anything from a new 500-mile superhighway to a new street to get you to Sainsbury's while avoiding the traffic lights. Send them in - there's a "Contact" link to the left. I'll post as many as humanely possible up here, and also add them to the new roads map below.
Suggestions
Chris Marshall suggests...
London - West Country - upgrade the A30 or A303 to make a new M30 between the M3 and Exeter, to once and for all solve the traffic problems.
Devon Expressway - the A38 has been called this for ages, but for heavens sakes upgrade it and get it over with. Either more M5 or the A38(M).
Norwich motorway - Norwich is in the flattest bit of the country and yet has no motorway! I would suggest extending the M45 out to meet it.
Rupert Candy suggests...
London - Worthing (M24?) - at the moment there are no good roads south of London between the M23 and the A3.
M23 northern extension - finish off the M23's northern end (although this would involve demolishing most of south London...).
A14 upgraded to M14 - Upgrade the A14 (especially junctions with the A1 and M6/M1) and make it the M14 - it's far too important for an A-road.
M27 eastern extension - Continue the M27 along the route of the current A27, at least as far as Brighton.
Chris adds: did you know the M27 was originally meant to go from Ramsgate to Land's End?
Cambridge - Oxford - via Bedford, Milton Keynes and Buckingham (M428? M45? M140?)
Chris adds: the M45 is taken. I'd suggest M41 since it follows the A41 near Oxford and this number was freed up last year.
2/11/01 added also...
Second Thames Crossing - build the proposed huge bridge across the Thames Estuary and join it up to the M11 and M20. Not sure about numbers - M28??? M21?
Richard Bullock suggests...
M67 completion - from Moltram where it currently stops to Sheffield, to join with the M1.
Edinburgh - Carlisle - a new motorway, possibly the M75.
Chris adds: This is presently the A7, so I'd suggest the M7. Which would complete the list of single digit motorways!
M90 Aberdeen Motorway - Upgrade A90 to full motorway (6 lane) by extending M90 to Aberdeen.
A34 Alderly Edge Bypass - urgently needed to ease traffic congestion through the village. Bypass is currently build from Cheadle to Wilmslow but funnels all of the traffic into Alderley Edge.
Complete A1(M) - from M25 to Edinburgh.
M6 Relief Road - toll free. Possibly joining Stoke-on-Trent at M6 to M1 at Leicester. Avoid Birmingham at all costs!
Chris adds: would this make it the M50, since it follows the A50? Oh no, sorry, Ross-on-Wye's already got that number...
Andy Martin suggests...
M34 - this would ease problems along the western bits of the M25 by allowing traffic to cut the corner.
George Carty suggests...
A1(M) Newcastle and Gateshead Bypass - in desperate
need of an upgrade to three lanes each way throughout (or perhaps even
four lanes each way in the immediate vicinity in the Metrocentre).
A329(M) - extension of the A329(M) to meet
the M40 in the north and the M3 in the south is a necessity.
M34 - as above (a duplicated submission). This could also be helpful to reduce traffic to channel ports in Kent.
M1 widening - upgrade to four lanes each way from London to the M6.
Ian Smith suggests...
Birmingham Western Bypass - from Western end M42, west of
Black Country, Wolverhampton to M6 J11 (beginning of BNRR).
Congestion on West Midlands motorways will surely result in it's
construction one day.
M64 Stoke to Derby - upgraded A50 is not a solution, this busy route has roundabouts on it for goodness sake!
Chris adds: wait a second! I want the M64 number for A1-York! We're running out of 6X numbers.
M50 Extension - J8 M5 to M42/M40, would relieve pressure on M5.
A12 upgraded to M12 - speaks for itself (and it's going to happen!).
Iain Wood suggests...
M2 Extension - from Junction 1 northwards over the Thames Estuary to join the M11 at Stansted.
Road Thameslink - extending the M23 northwards using a tunnel to link it to the A1(M).
Road Crossrail - extending the A13 westwards using a tunnel to the M4 at Heathrow.
Upgrade of North and South Circulars - to 4 lane motorways, rename the new route the M41.
Peter Lupton suggests...
M25 Bypass - running from the M3 to the M40 using the A329(M). Also includes widening parts of the M3 from the new road to the M25.
Jim Bob suggests...
Central Southampton Motorway - along the route of the current A3024 (east), linking up with the A33/A35 millbrook road in the west.
North and South Circular - seconding the motion to upgrade to four-lane motorway!
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