Coventry Middle Ringroad?

Nic · Post by **Nic** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 21:06

Ok, Coventry inner ringroad has a certain place in history.
Coventry Outer ringroad (A45/46) is well known too, but were there ever plans for a middle ringroad inbetween the two.

I present a little evidence.

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Whilst driving the single carriageway'd A4082 it was noticeable that there was considerable land to the east side, to squeeze in a DC. The Railway bridge has an extended span to fit in the DC.

If it is the case, the plans have been long since abandoned, due to the size of the bridges carrying the road over the road. The bridges hug the side of the road at either side, and whilst it wouldnt take much effort to extand the bride, its certainly easier to future proof it when building it.

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Truvelo · Post by **Truvelo** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 22:09

To the north the road becomes unclassifield but is called Hipswell Highway then changes to Sewell Highway. It continues as Proffitt Ave before proceeding towards the A444. This may possibly have been a proposed early eastern bypass as the current eastern bypass wasn't built then.

mittfh · Post by **mittfh** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 10:11

On the Western side of the city the B4107 Four Pounds Avenue looks a likely suspect.

Speculation: To the South it continues into Queensland Avenue, but quickly narrows to look almost indistinguishable from other residential streets (although the aerial photo suggests it has more trees than its neighbours). South again and a fudged alignment along Earlsdon Avenue before stopping dead at the War Memorial Park. Possibly then E along Kenilworth Road and smashing through a housing estate to meet the U/C Daventry Road, which eventually meets the Whitely Interchange and the A4082.

Dodgy speculation: To the North of Four Pounds Avenue, the nearest you can get are Mosely Avenue, Lawrence Saunders Road and Lydgate Road.

Wild speculation: link to Cash's Lane, link to Red Lane, link to Blackberry Lane, connection to Sewall Highway.

mattling · Post by **mattling** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 00:51

Coventry kind of had half a cobbled together middle ring road - the aforementioned A4082. You can find its remains - the imaginatively named B4082 a little to the east of the northern end of the A4082 and then again crossing the north side of the city.

The routes mentioned in the previous posts do work as a way of getting around the city avoiding the centre.

Tracing the ring around it would (does) squeeze throught Earlsdon as Earlsdon Ave North and South and then continues on through Cheylesmore as Daventry Rd before linking up with the southern end of the A4082 - all except that Memorial Park blocks the road's progress.

Perhaps a New York Central Park style expressway was envisaged cutting through Memorial Park? A project worthy of a great city like Coventry!

I feel a fantasy map coming on...

SouthWest Philip · Post by **SouthWest Philip** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 17:22

mattling wrote:Coventry kind of had half a cobbled together middle ring road - the aforementioned A4082. You can find its remains - the imaginatively named B4082...

Which would be fine if the B4082 didn't already exist in Worcestershire! (Pinvin to Upton Snodsbury.)

Martin · Post by **Martin** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 00:12

This was on my mobile phone - looking at the map there's no way this could be built without wholesale destruction.

Chris5156 · Post by **Chris5156** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 10:08

"Urban Motor Road" - love it!

The north-south (A444) route I have seen before; the other diagonal one passing north-west of the city centre is new to me.

Steven · Post by **Steven** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 10:19

Chris5156 wrote:The north-south (A444) route I have seen before;.

Yeah, that's the Coventry North-South Motorway - got reasonably close to being built, too!

mattling · Post by **mattling** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 20:56

yes the urban motor road to the west of the city centre is interesting! Some of that route corresponds to some suspiciously wide roads in that part of the city, and some of the areas it passes through have recently been the scene of wholesale demolition (turning brown-field sites into housing mostly).

I'll try to post some links to the roads I mean