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The M4, originally the London-South Wales Motorway, is a motorway in the United Kingdom running from west London to southwest Wales.The English section to the Severn Bridge was constructed between 1961 and 1971; the Welsh element was largely complete by 1980, though a non-motorway section around Briton Ferry bridge remained until 1993.
The M4 relief road, also known as M4 Corridor around Newport (M4CaN), [15] was a proposed motorway, south of the city of Newport, South Wales, intended to relieve traffic congestion on the M4 motorway. Originally proposed by the Welsh Office in 1991, [16] it was not pursued by the Conservative Major Government.
Map showing the Second Severn Crossing in relation to other crossings and the estuary itself. The Second Severn Crossing (Welsh: Ail Groesfan Hafren), officially named the Prince of Wales Bridge (Welsh: Pont Tywysog Cymru) since July 2018, is the M4 motorway bridge over the River Severn between England and Wales, opened in 1996 to supplement the traffic capacity of the Severn Bridge built in 1966.
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This drone footage shows why the M4 motorway was entirely closed near Bristol this weekend. The motorway was shut so utilities, currently housed in the Badminton Road bridge, could be diverted ...
The Welsh Government is responsible for trunk roads and motorways, whilst the 22 local authorities are responsible for all other highways. In 2001 the Welsh Government reviewed the way in which trunk roads and motorways were being managed, [ 4 ] and by September 2004, [ 4 ] they had decided to reduce the number of trunk road agencies from eight ...
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Consulting engineers were Sir Alexander Gibb & Partners, and it was built by Costain, with 16 acres on each side. [1] The 11 miles of M4 from Chiswick to Langley were the first to be computer controlled from the police centre at Heston services, with digital motorway signs in March 1969, opened by Labour minister Richard Marsh, Baron Marsh. [2]