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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.
The M4 Motorway is a 55-kilometre (34 mi) [1] series of partially tolled dual carriageway motorways in Sydney designated as route M4. The M4 designation is part of the wider A4 and M4 route designation, the M4 runs parallel and/or below ground to Great Western Highway , Parramatta Road and City West Link , which are part of route A44.
Drivers on the M4 between Wales and England have been warned that roadworks on the Severn bridge will remain until the summer of 2025. ... the UK’s second longest bridge that links south Wales ...
The M4 corridor is an area in the United Kingdom adjacent to the M4 motorway, which runs from London to South Wales. [1] It is a major hi-tech hub. [2] [3] Important cities and towns linked by the M4 include (from east to west) London, Slough, Bracknell, Maidenhead, Reading, Newbury, Swindon, Bath, Bristol, Newport, Cardiff, Port Talbot and Swansea.
The M4 (London-South Wales Motorway) in this area was opened in December 1964, from junctions 4 to 5; this 3.9-mile section cost £3.2m, and was built by Cubitts and Green. The interchange, therefore, is junction 4b of the M4.
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.
Wales has 83 miles (134 kilometres) of motorway, all of which are in the south. The major artery is the M4, which enters Wales via the Second Severn Crossing and terminates at Pont Abraham in Carmarthenshire. The M4 in South Wales has 27 junctions and is an important route between the main urban areas in the region.