what is the most unsual motorway junction?

vinh24 · Post by **vinh24** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 19:10

what is the most unsual motorway junction?
The only one i can think of m6 jct6

A8000Bob · Post by **A8000Bob** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 19:23

M60 J3/4

M6 J20

M8 J15-19

Johnathan404 · Post by **Johnathan404** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 20:03

M1 J45 - looks normal but there's nothing there!

M27 J4

M27 J12

DavidBrown · Post by **DavidBrown** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 20:14

M5 J29 is very unusual, considering two major holiday routes meet here.

A303Paul · Post by **A303Paul** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 20:16

M60/A6144(M) - single carriageway roads and mini roundabouts

other end of the A6144(M) a set of traffic lights

M23 J7 - half built

M25 J5 - totso with no hard shoulders on the M25 at one point because its the old A21.

A40(M) (Decd) one of the slip roads was a 150 year old bridge over the railway

GC_NEMan1 · Post by **GC_NEMan1** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 20:40

M4 J2

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 20:41

GC_NEMan1 wrote:M4 J2

A classic.

Gavin A74 · Post by **Gavin A74** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 21:01

M77 J8

The 'start of motorway' sign is also on the hard shoulder

Lewis · Post by **Lewis** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 21:11

M1 J1

The motorway starts in the middle of the roundabout!

Col · Post by **Col** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 21:46

Unusual?

M50 - Junction 3

bart · Post by **bart** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 23:53

M5 J11a has always struck me as odd.

ForestChav · Post by **ForestChav** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 23:58

bart wrote:M5 J11a has always struck me as odd.

It's botched that's why, it works well though, having spent a while down that part of the world in the summer.

ChrisH · Post by **ChrisH** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 00:01

Don't let Gazzaa hear you say that! I haven't seen him around for a while, so you're probably safe...

(He designed it, so it's not botched

)

ForestChav · Post by **ForestChav** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 00:06

ChrisH wrote:Don't let Gazzaa hear you say that! I haven't seen him around for a while, so you're probably safe...

(He designed it, so it's not botched )

No, I mean the A417. The junction works well as I said.

Matthew · Post by **Matthew** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 00:39

M6 J7 (Great Barr).

It's weird how you almost go around full circle to get on to the A34.

gepree68 · Post by **gepree68** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 07:00

Matthew wrote:M6 J7 (Great Barr).

It's weird how you almost go around full circle to get on to the A34.

M6 J3a/4 & M42 J7/7a/7b & M6 Toll

Geoff

Roadtripper_Ian · Post by **Roadtripper_Ian** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 07:20

M5 J11a is nuts. Regardless of who "designed" it.

nowster · Post by **nowster** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 09:31

Roadtripper_Ian wrote:M5 J11a is nuts. Regardless of who "designed" it.

The only missing movements are:

The westbound slip off the roundabout. It can't go there as it would clash with the off-slip going to M5 northbound.
The southbound M5 can't reach the westbound A417. However, that movement is adequately covered by J11.

I agree that it looks weird.

Sunil_of_Yoxley · Post by **Sunil_of_Yoxley** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 12:11

M11 J4
M11 J5
M11 J8

M1J46_A63_A6120 · Post by **M1J46_A63_A6120** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 13:21

Feeble replies really compared to some others...

M1 J38 Haigh Roundabout - the A637 doesn't cross the M1, the road off to the east in unclassified, and there is a bus stop road cut into the eastern edge of the roundabout.

M1 J23a - basically two restricted access junctions, so that northbound traffic uses this junction to get to East Midlands Airport and southbound traffic uses it to get on the A42 - but not possible vice-versa.

M62 J26 Chair Bar - not only does traffic from M62 westbound that wants the M606 need to use the roundabout, but it is marked out wrongly (just before the M606 slip diverges, approximately where my arrow is marked).