M58 motorway at bizarre junction 5
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M58 motorway at bizarre junction 5
Image: © Peter Whatley Taken: 23 Mar 2012
Junction 5 is one of the oddest constructions on the entire UK motorway network. It's a kind of half-hearted cloverleaf junction (see: http://www.cbrd.co.uk/interchanges/cloverleaf.shtml) built decades after that type of junction was deemed unsafe for further construction. As can be seen, to reduce lane changing on the main carriageway, a "through slip road" has been used, separated from lane 1 by hatching. The remainder of the junction arrangements fully justify a "bad junction award", as documented here: http://www.cbrd.co.uk/badjunctions/58-577/.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.53274
Longitude
-2.748119