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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 M25 section was due to be open nine months before the M4/M25 interchange would open. [3] The northern section of the interchange was to be part of a 10.5-mile section of the M25 also due to open in spring 1985; this later became the 4-mile M4 to Iver Heath section to the M40, at Denham Interchange, junction 16. The 6.5-mile section of the ...
The Prince of Wales Bridge used by M4 drivers was built in 1996, and was known as the Second Severn Crossing until it was renamed in 2018 [John Myers | Geograph] ... which opened in 1996. ...
Chiswick Roundabout with the flyover above. The Chiswick flyover is a short elevated section of the M4 motorway in the western approaches to London, United Kingdom. The flyover in the west London suburb of Chiswick, was opened in 1959 with the intention of reducing congestion and the impact on local traffic of vehicles travelling around London on the North and South Circular Roads and between ...
Historical map of 1926 of the Autostrada dei Laghi ("Lakes Motorway"; now parts of the Autostrada A8 and the Autostrada A9) opened on 21 September 1924 in Italy, the first controlled-access highway ever built in the world. [1] [2] The evolution of motorways construction
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]
This tolled section (from Kilcock to Kinnegad) opened on 12 December 2005, almost a year ahead of schedule. [3] It is the second-most expensive toll road in Ireland (after the Dublin Port Tunnel ). A toll of €3.40 (as of 2024) for cars is charged at a toll plaza just west of Kilcock and at smaller toll plazas at on and off-ramps at Enfield. [ 4 ]
The M48 is a 13-mile-long (21 km) motorway in Great Britain, which crosses the Severn near Chepstow, Monmouthshire, linking England with Wales via the Severn Bridge.This road used to be the M4, and as a result is anomalously numbered: as it lies to the north of the M4 and to the west of the M5, it is in the Motorway Zone 5.