M1 motorway at junction 9
Introduction
The photograph on this page of M1 motorway at junction 9 by Peter Whatley as part of the Geograph project.
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M1 motorway at junction 9
Image: © Peter Whatley Taken: 3 Apr 2012
The original junction here featured slip roads with very tight turns and virtually no run-in to the main carriageway. Since the 2000s the motorway has been widened to 4 lanes in each direction and all slip roads greatly extended. The surface no longer features the slightly pink concrete originally laid which 1960s users will remember "sang", producing a high pitched note as it was traversed.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.821983
Longitude
-0.417741