King of spurs
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A good spur motorway will have a certain checklist of road enthusiast features. It needs something to complain about, some interesting history or backstory, some unfinished business and with a bit of luck a claim to fame too.
Meet the A329(M), a road that has all that in droves. Complaint? Check. That enormous free-flowing junction with the M4 is utterly wasted when other motorway interchanges have to do without. (Insert gnashing of teeth here.) Interesting history? Oh yes. It used to be A329(M) all the way up to the A4, but the section between Winnersh Triangle and the A4 was downgraded to A3290 in the late 1990s for the installation of a bus lane. Unfinished business? More than you might know. The southern end (and that massive M4 junction) were supposed to link the M4 to the M3 and M25 - it's part of the M31 proposal. The northern end was meant to continue in to Reading town centre. Neither happened. And a claim to fame? You bet. It's the only 70-limit motorway in the UK that still has no central barrier in places.
Here you go, A329(M). Wear your crown with pride.
- Video captured
- February 2008
- Running time
- 3'33"
