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On 28 May, 20:46, "ARWadworth" wrote:
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On Wed, 28 May 2008 00:22:55 +0100, "nightjar" cpb@ wrote:

* Apparently, enough to cover the M1 from London to Birmingham to a
height of several feet, which some people thought was a good
suggestion.

That'd be a different M1 from the one that doesn't go to Birmingham,
then? ;-)

It would be the first section, junctions 2 to 18, which was considered
to
be the London to Birmingham motorway until further bits were built from
1965 on.

Colin Bignell
Then it was supposed to end here, at Leeds. Now it's extended even
further.

To get past Leeds to the A64 around York? The A1 M1 link road? A fair bit
of
the motorway (inc M621) was renamed as the junction was created.

It now means there are 6 lanes of standing traffic at rush hour where the
A1, M1 and M62 roughly join each other instead of the three lanes of
standing traffic that we had before.

Is that progress?

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Does the M1 still go down to two lanes for a section of viaduct as it
passes Sheffield near the old steelworks cooling towers?

Yes. It is a PITA unless you are joining the motorway at J34.

The cooling towers are not steelwork towers but old power station cooling
towers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinsley_Viaduct
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5160214.stm

Radio Sheffield tried to save them but they are still doomed.

One of the worst feelings I have ever had is getting out of my car on the
underpass part of the viaduct to help the driver in front of me when his car
had broken down. The whole bridge/viaduct moves as traffic passes over the
top half. I felt sea sick.

Adam