Photos from The Maidenhead Advertiser 150th Anniversary book 'Days Gone By' are now available to buy. Junction 32 Coryton. The whole section from Kilcock to Kinnegad was replaced by a winding, tolled, 37 km westward extension of the M4 in December 2005. 132.5. Junction 5: Stokenchurch, near the Buckinghamshire/Oxfordshire border, and the A40. The Motorway passes to the south with an interchange on the Reading-Basingstoke road and another on the A4 at Theale where a new by-pass will reduce the traffic in this severely overloaded village. You can click on a location to make a specific comment, or give us your general feedback. Markerpost. The road from Dublin to Sligo is around 200 kilometres long and uses the M4 motorway for the first 60 km, and the N4 for the remainder which varies from a grade separated dual carriageway to a . - Improving Junction 7 Maynooth and building a new junction immediately to the west We'll be closing the M4 in both directions betweenjunctions 3 (Hayes) and 4b (M25)from Friday 18 to Monday 21 November. It is a 2-mile (3.2km) long M4 spur. Highways England has put in place a diversion route but has urged drivers to avoid the area if possible, Get the latest traffic & travel stories from Berkshire Live straight to your inbox. 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There is no defined timescale for this phase of commissioning. Due to the length of traffic management to remove, it will take us several nights. By the 19th century, it had become the main street in Paddington. Jct 5-7 Maynooth-Leixlip Widening, Mullingar - Longford - Rooskey and Carrick on Shannon to Dromod projects are in Feasibility Study. - Widening to 6 lanes with bus lanes Learn . Junction 10: The A43 takes you towards Northampton while the B430 takes you towards Middleton Stoney in Oxfordshire. The town was bypassed with good quality grade separated dual carriageway bypass in 1994, with the tie-in to the M4/M6 area added in July 2005. - Closing J7 Maynooth, converting to overbridge and building a new junction to the west and a new junction to the east Between Harrow and Amersham, the road closely follows the route of the London Harrow-on-the-Hill Aylesbury railway lines, The Chiltern Line from Marylebone, and runs near several stations along that line. Junction 7: This serves the A329, Wallingford and Thame. There will also be five lanes on the eastbound approach to Junction 4b. At this town, the N4 continues northwest, while a new road is spawned, the N6, and heads southwest. The Earthquake Event Page application supports most recent browsers, view supported browsers.Or, try our Real-time Notifications, Feeds, and Web Services. - Closing J7 Maynooth, converting to overbridge and building a new junction to the west Bridgend is on Junctions 25 to 37, M4 Junctions 44 and 45 for Swansea, Since the 17-mile section between junctions 8/9 at Maidenhead and 12, for Theale, was opened in December 2021, weve been continuing with our work on the 15-mile eastern section, between junctions 3 at Hayes and 8/9. The proposed route of the M4 was then changed to go south of Reading, instead of north of it. Contingency bookings are also in place, but these are only used if previously planned work is delayed and there is no clash with other closures. BuckinghamshireLive has put together this guide to the junctions of the M40 and which one you need to use to get to your destination. As a safety measure the maximum speed limit is set at 60mph. 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These included Elgin Towers, constructed between 1966 and 1969, and demolished in 1994. The newly opened section will include 16 new emergency areas, bringing the total of emergency areas on the M4 between junctions 3 and 12 to 34, with a place to stop in an emergency every 1.3 miles on average. The motorway will be shut in both directions from the evening of Friday, January 29 until early on Monday, February 1. To search for a specific photo, please use the reference number printed in the newspaper caption. Between junctions 4 and 4b, there will be five lanes. Read details. We expect to finish most of the work on this section by the latter part of 2020, before opening it as a smart motorway during 2021. type the search words in the search facility towards the top right of this page and click "search". All our sites have strict safeguarding measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and none of our sites are open to the public. A404 (M) [ edit] The A404 (M) is a motorway in Berkshire, England and can be referred to as the Maidenhead and Marlow Bypass or M4/M40 link road. Here is a video of the latest progress on the Collooney-Castlebaldwin scheme. M4 Junction number 6 Markerpost 37 Name Tuns Lane Interchange Type Roundabout Interchange Terminus Not a terminus Other routes A335 Authority National Highways Restricted turns Full access Services No services Layout and signage Lane configuration Lane 1 exits and returns after the junction. Youll have seen between junctions 3 and 8/9 all lanes of the upgraded carriageway were open and the speed limit was 60mph. The M4 will be closed overnight in both directions over the weekend of 14 - 16 May 2022 between Junctions 5 (Langley) and 6 (Slough-Windsor). It is also the name given to the immediate surrounding area of Queens Park and Kensal Green, straddling the NW10, W10, W2 and W9 postcodes. As always you can unsubscribe at any time. In the event of poor weather conditions or other issues out of our control, planned work may be postponed at short notice. M5 Junctions 4a to 6- this project got underway in January 2016. Beyond this town, there are no further large towns. Were looking forward to real improvements it will bring to more than 130,000 journeys every day. Strategic diversions will also be in place on the wider motorway network to direct traffic away from this part of the M4, using the M25, M3 and M40. While there will be diversions in place for local drivers. Starting from the N4/M50 interchange, upgraded from a be-trafficlighted roundabout to a hybrid stack/cloverleaf interchange in 2008, the road runs as a 3-lane dual carriageway past the private school King's Hospital and the Liffey Valley Shopping Centre, before bypassing the suburb of Lucan. From Junction 4a, motorists can reach the M42; from Junction 8 the M50; from Junction 15 the M4, and from Junction 18a the M49 motorway. Some junctions on the motorway tend to get busier than others so be aware of potential delays by monitoring M5 travel news and M5 traffic updates - and try to avoid the worst of them. These include: No exit from M40 southbound. Notably, the route follows the existing N4 for the whole eastern leg. Where a hard shoulder does not currently exist, the motorway will be adapted to create a minimum of four lanes, including, which are being replaced as part of the project. 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This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. The N4 then passes through the town of Longford, certainly a town that has suffered more than many from the effects of congestion and truck traffic thundering through its thoroughfares. Our operators then set a Red X sign to close one or more lanes, adjust speed limits and deploy traffic officers. January 22 - 25 January 25 ,2021 full weekend closure in both directions between junctions 4b (M25 interchange) and 5 (Langley). Where a hard shoulder does not currently exist, the motorway will be adapted to create a minimum of four lanes, includingunder the 11bridgeswhich are being replaced as part of the project. Running for just over 160 miles in length, it starts at Junction 8 of the M6, at West Bromwich, and ends in Exeter, in Devon. This work involves lane closures and overnight and weekend closures. [13] The old M4 was renumbered A423(M)[14] as it was a direct continuation of the A423 to Oxford. The M5 also provides access to several large UK cities, from various directions, including Birmingham, Worcester, Cheltenham, Gloucester and Bristol.