I have listed all former motorways in the section in Pathetic Motorways, as I couldn't quickly find a list on the internet. I haven't listed the abandoned motorways, like the A18 (M) or the A4 (M), or the A36 (M) as it's merely a tiny M27 spur.
One other thing ... the winning motorway will have it's 'route sign' for 7 days as my avatar after the poll ends.

M15 never made it to the ground did it ??

A tiny section of the M15 was built between the M11 and the A12 (on maps it was shown as M11 as once you got onto it heading northbound, you had nowhere else to go), but once sections of the A406 were built around it, it was downgraded. Had any other sections of the M15 were built, it would have been shown as that. It's the M15 that never was.

The A6144(M), because it was so brilliantly pathetic. It was almost like it was created for us sabristi! For starters, it was a single carriageway motorway. Secondly, it didn't really serve anywhere much other than Carrington and Lymm (via the A6144). Finally, it had traffic lights at both ends.

No contest.

I would agree with the A6144(M)

Traffic Lights at the Carrington end but a roundabout at the M60 end I think.

It was a dumb-bell junction with two mini-roundabouts.

So it was - two roundabouts!

I voted for the A6144(M) too. It was such a wonderful anomoly it was a real tragedy to see it downgraded (and its speed limit dropped a whopping 20mph).

Currently the A6144(M) is running away with it ...

As for me I voted for the A41(M) and the M10.

The votes have come to a stand still?! Not when there is still more then 1 month before the poll ends!!!

A6144(M): 24 votes
M10: 8 votes
A41(M): 8 votes

I have had to vote for the two that I have regularly had to drive on.

The M41 though never when it was a motorway (but was still marked as one on many maps). My biggest memory of it was that the northbound carriageway would flood (dodgy drains) whenever it rained. Sometimes, you could bypass it going off and on at the slip roads to what is now the shopping centre.

The other is the A46(M) just because the signs, even now, make it look like it should be under motorway conditions with every exit being a motorway. It's also still signed as A46 even though it changed ages ago.

Gerry

Some good ones here. I think we all liked the A6144(M) as an oddity, but as a motorway, it was terrible.

I only ever drove it once, but driving on the Tring Bypass, one certainly gets a feel for the old motorway. So Grand, but with nowhere to go. I similarly like the "new" A41, South of Tring. It has a certain slalom feel to it at times.

I'm going to add a little 'life support' to this thread using this reply to show you what each of the former motorways look like.


M10 Southern St Albans Bypass

Unfortunately, I couldn't find a good image of what was nearly the M15.

The image I found of the M41 was over the pixel limit. To see it, check this link: http://www.btinternet.com/~roads/pix/M41WhiteCity.jpg


A40(M) Westway


A41(M) Tring Bypass

I couldn't find one of the A46(M) either!


A102(M) East Cross Route


Just check the image ...


A6144(M)

Not all images are great, but they give you an idea of what the road looks like. Some are even taken of the roads as a motorway!

Imagine this.

When was that roundabout upgraded? I was there about a year ago and am sure it didn't look anything like that.

Or alternatively, you could always look at PM, which has photos of pretty much all the former motorways.

The A6144(M) should just be given the trophy now.

Yeah. It's been the runaway winner ever since I started the poll (almost; I was the first one to vote!), and has nearly half the polls votes. But anything could happen in the next month or so ...

The votes, thankfully, are steadily multiplying, but the comments. sadly, are not.
This is on till March, remember. Maybe I should add something more other then, 'the winner receives'.
The 2nd place pioneer will receive it's route place sign as my avatar two days after the first. The 3rd place pioneer will be, you guessed it, one day after the 2nd. In case you didn't know, the 1st place pioneer will be on my avatar for seven days after the poll ends!!! We all pretty much know that the Carrington Spur has one, so I'm trying to make this poll a bit more exciting! Bring on the fight ... for 2nd and 3rd place!

In this poll, the A6144(M) is like when Michael Schumacher was driving for Ferrari - for all the others, it's a fight for second place.

Quite rightly so, as the Tring and St Albans bypass are fighting for 2nd place supremacy.

And by the way, the never to be M15 has finally gained a point!