Leicester Eastern Bypass
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Re: Leicester Eastern Bypass
Re: Leicester Eastern Bypass
I can't imagine a scheme as big as that ever being approved nowadays!SouthWest Philip wrote:I can't help but think a better alternative might be an eastern 'bypass', of sorts, in the form of a new motorway or HQDC from,say, Stevenage to Doncaster. No, I don't mean upgrading the remaining bits of A1 to A1(M)! Rather a new route passing east of Bedford, Kettering, Leicester and Nottingham roughly following the present A600, A6, B6-whatever past Market Harborough, A6097/A614. It would revolutionise access to the east of all the towns and cities on that side of the M1 and provide much better relief to the M1 then hard shoulder running...
Maybe a smaller version would work. A new high-quality road (ideally a motorway, but realistically it would have to be HQDC) along the line of the A6097/A614, connecting the A46 with the A1.
That would provide a good alternative to the M1.
Re: Leicester Eastern Bypass
It's not a bad idea, but it would do very little to help the eastern side of Leicester!6637 wrote:I can't imagine a scheme as big as that ever being approved nowadays!SouthWest Philip wrote:I can't help but think a better alternative might be an eastern 'bypass', of sorts, in the form of a new motorway or HQDC from,say, Stevenage to Doncaster. No, I don't mean upgrading the remaining bits of A1 to A1(M)! Rather a new route passing east of Bedford, Kettering, Leicester and Nottingham roughly following the present A600, A6, B6-whatever past Market Harborough, A6097/A614. It would revolutionise access to the east of all the towns and cities on that side of the M1 and provide much better relief to the M1 then hard shoulder running...
Maybe a smaller version would work. A new high-quality road (ideally a motorway, but realistically it would have to be HQDC) along the line of the A6097/A614, connecting the A46 with the A1.
That would provide a good alternative to the M1.
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Re: Leicester Eastern Bypass
Re: Leicester Eastern Bypass
There is a line where you could take the bypass close to J21, but it's largely parallel to the River Sence (perhaps why that corridor hasn't been built up?) and is so close it would complicate the M1 junction dramatically with braiding etc. Beyond that there's housing in the way until you get to Cosby, which is roughly what's shown on the map.
Re: Leicester Eastern Bypass
Leicester City Council stymied the Eastern District Distributer in the end from their actions in the 1960s, when it gave itself planning permission to build 120 or so council houses in the reservation on Goodwood Road when it was also the Highway Authority. When it came round to it possibly being built in the 1990s these would have needed to be demolished which was considered unacceptable (as well as issues elsewhere on the old route). The EDDR was not meant though to be a substitute for the Eastern Bypass, also planned for the 90s as it was expected to take 90% local traffic.
It is noticeable in retrospect that the distributer only really started to get built after Leicestershire County Council took charge of the highways in 1974. It was never considered a priority by the City Council which concentrated on constructing the inner ring road.
Re: Leicester Eastern Bypass
Re: Leicester Eastern Bypass
I had the same thought, because it makes little or no sense to build a road all the way to ‘20a’, when most of it will be flowing back to 21 -either to continue on the M1, or the M69, or 21a for the A46.B6047 wrote:I think J21 would need to be altered anyway if this was built as so much of the traffic would be going onto the M69 it would become impossible to keep the roundabout. A route along the Sence valley would be more useful than one further out.
Maybe extend it as a spur to 20a, but don’t leave that as the only destination.
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Re: Leicester Eastern Bypass
The route would have taken it across the roundabout at the end of the ertswhile A46(M), and joined it all up with the end of the M69. Overall, a much better solution than what's in place today.jedikiah wrote:In the end the south western part built as dual was further out from the reserved part - Kingsway off Narborough Road South still has the unused reservation for part of the Southern Distributer. The rest wasn't largely because the wide verges had become to be considered public green amenity space in the intervening decades.
There are some layouts on the Whetstone Interchange page of the Roaders' Digest: the SABRE Wiki that show the earlier proposed route in the area.
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From the SABRE Wiki: Whetstone Interchange :
Whetstone Interchange is junction 21 of the M1 and junction 3 of the M69.
The most striking feature of the junction is the ski jump where the M69 should have continued eastwards towards the A563. Had it been completed there would also have been a loop enabling southbound M1 traffic to bypass the roundabout to reach the M69.