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East of the Girton Interchange with the M11 at Cambridge, the A14 used to be the A45, and much of the long-distance traffic further west had previously used the A45 route. The section between Cambridge and Kettering used to be the A604 , apart from a short section near Kettering that used to be part of the A6 .
The East Midlands is one of ... England's primary south-west to north-east Cross Country Route runs ... At Latimer Park (Burton Latimer) at the A6/A14 ...
(This became the A45 before the bypasses opened. Note the current A14 (ex-A45) uses none of the former route of the A139.) Only south facing slips are provided at the A19 junction. Traffic must use the A1027 to access the northbound A19. A140: A14 east of Needham Market: A149 near Cromer: part of original route occupied by Norwich Airport runway.
A section of the A14 near Ipswich was closed after a "serious" crash, National Highways said. The A14 westbound was shut earlier between junctions 56 and 55, with emergency services at the scene.
Only 20 motorway services in the UK remain in the ownership of the Department for Transport and let on 50-year leases to private operating companies. [1] The vast majority of motorway services in the UK are owned by one of three companies: Moto , Welcome Break and Roadchef and a developing chain of stations being constructed by Extra .
The A14 is particularly significant as an east-west route, linking the Port of Felixstowe with the Midlands and the national motorway network through Cambridgeshire. [13] [14] It has been described as "one of most important and clogged up arteries in Great Britain" and as a key route with "strategic national importance". [15]
Access from the A14 needs planning as the services' entrance is inconveniently facing away from the A14, whereas access from the A1(M) is simple via Brampton Hut roundabout. From the South/East on the A14, it is necessary to take a parallel route on the A1(N) towards Huntingdon from J22 a few miles before the junction. Similarly travelling East ...
The continuation of the motorway from junction 18 towards Yorkshire was carried out as a series of extensions between 1965 and 1968. Diverging from the A5, the motorway takes a more northerly route through the East Midlands, via Leicester, Loughborough, Nottingham to Sheffield, where the M18 splits from the M1 at junction 32 to head to Doncaster.