The M1 starts here

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The M1 starts here

Image: © Peter Whatley Taken: 3 Apr 2012

Entrance from Staples Corner roundabout to the northbound M1. The elevated road in the background is the more recent access direct from the eastern side of Staples Corner avoiding the roundabout. This was the final southern extension of the M1, opened as late as 1977. Had plans from the 1960s been realised, the M1 would have continued to a motorway box around central London similar to Paris' Peripherique.

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