Gailey Island with M54 northern route. There were three route options for the M54 during the planning stage. Had the northern route been chosen it would have run parallel to the A5.
A feasibility report from 1970 shows a potential layout for the junction with the M54 splitting in two with the northern part being an online dualling of the A5 and leads to M6 J12. The southern part freeflows to the M6 South. This design never got beyond the initial feasibility stage and later proposals were much simplified with only the link to the M6 south getting the underpass.
One of the junction layouts planned for the northern route of the M54 from around 1973. This has a new roundabout immediately to the south of Gailey Island.
Proposal for the junction of the M54 northern route at Gailey Island from around 1973
The A449 heading past Dobbie's Garden Centre at Gailey
