Everything about M45 Motorway totally explained
The
M45 is a
motorway in
Warwickshire,
England and is 8
miles (12.9
km) long. It runs from Junction 17 of the
M1 motorway south east of
Rugby and ends with a junction with the
A45 road south-west of Rugby. It is one of the least busy parts of the
United Kingdom motorway system.
History
It was built in
1959, when the M1 (as part of a link from
London to
Birmingham) went as far as Junction 18; the M45 was designed to dissipate some of the motorway traffic before the M1 terminated. Its equivalent at the southern end of the M1 is the
M10.
As the signposted route to Birmingham in the
1960s it was one of the busiest roads in Britain. However in
1972, the opening of the
M6 provided a much faster route through to the
West Midlands from London. Most traffic diverted to this route, leaving the M45 with only a fraction of its previous traffic.
A limited-access junction (Eastbound exit and Westbound entry) was added in September
1991 around two-thirds of the way along from the M1, near
Dunchurch. Apart from this, the motorway is very much in its 'as-built' condition. Like all motorways, it has received a crash barrier along the central reservation, but it's noticeably free of the plethora of large signs and gantries added to more heavily used motorways during the 1970s/80s. It also has some of the few remaining 1950s-era concrete over-bridges. These were the standard design for early motorways, but were usually replaced or modified in the 1970s.
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