When was m55 built

Progress updates and timescales. Construction started in September Why we are building the new roads. Building new road capacity will: Provide direct access to new housing developments. Provide an alternative to avoid rush hour traffic in the city centre Improve access to the motorway from the Enterprise Zone at Warton. Improve our existing roads and local centres. Help to prioritise and promote walking and cycling. Support delivery of a new parkway rail station at Cottam.

About the roads. Preston Western Distributor 2. A new roundabout junction to link to Cottam Way to a potential new Cottam Parkway rail station. East-West Link Road 2 mile long single carriageway, varying speed limit between mph with a shared use cycleway and footway. New roundabout junction on Lightfoot Lane approximately metres west of the Wychnor junction. Forms a junction with Tabley Lane which avoids all residential properties.

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M55 motorway Post by ps2mint » Tue Oct 04, Been driving this route recently and it dawned on me that if this route were to be build nowadays, surely it would be constructed as a dual carriageway. The M55 seems to have more than enough capacity in it's current scope - majority of lanes empty at times! I'll be interested to hear what are the views of others? Bearing in mind that the old railway stations in Blackpool had dozens of platforms and this traffic migrated to cars.

As befitting its status as the first motorway, it was opened by the Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan. A large plaque was unveiled and still exists today at the A59 junction - although its modern placement manages to be relatively unobtrusive! A map of the Preston Bypass in can be seen here. Unfortunately, there was a problem. Freak wet weather conditions during construction were then followed by a strange "fast thaw" during the winter.

In order to repair the damage, the entire motorway was closed temporarily, which as you can imagine, meant the press had rather a field day The Ministry's insistence on two lanes in each direction backfired slightly when the third lane was added in the mids, though the compromise of the extra-wide central reservation meant that it was relatively painless to add - although there were no hard shoulders through bridges. Meanwhile, the bypass was being joined to the rest of the M6, with the section to the Lancaster Bypass to the north opening in , and the south coming first in Finally, the space set aside for an extension to the west and Blackpool opened as M55 in - at which point the most northern section of the original bypass was renumbered as M55 to match.

In the mids, the Bypass was again overloaded, and a study showed that the Bypass should be widened once again, this time to four lanes in each direction between the M61 and M55 junctions.

As part of the work, the entire carrageway was reconstructed, and in some cases moved slightly off the original route. All the bridges over the motorway were removed, and so today's Preston Bypass is almost completely different to the original - with only some small areas being original to the road, and ironically enough, the most obvious is no longer on the M6, but on the M55 section