M1 Junctions 19-23A

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Re: M1 Junctions 19-23A

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c2R wrote: Mon Dec 06, 2021 12:54
EpicChef wrote: Mon Dec 06, 2021 12:20 I had huge hope that the entire 19-23A stretch would be widened or ALRed (or at least VSL) so there's continuous provision of VSL, MS4 signs, additional CCTV etc all the way from J6A-J42. (As J35A-39 is also planned for RIS3).
But surely road improvements should be added where they're most needed? 19-21 is quiet, as a lot of the M1 traffic heading north has gone off up the M6 at 19, and traffic joins again from the West Midlands at 21. This is borne out by AADT of over 125k north of 21, compared to 80k between 19 and 21, and 100k south of 19.

So from a cost benefit perspective, the money needs to be spent on 21, or somewhere else on the network, e.g. Doncaster where the A1(M) is carrying more on D2M than the M1 is on D3M between 19 and 21
I agree. M6 J15-16 has an AADT circa 100k and will be much more of a glaring and deserving missing link in the ALR network than M1 J19-21.
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Re: M1 Junctions 19-23A

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jackal wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 15:06 I thought it would be useful to pull together some updated info about this scheme.

In the RIS2 document it was split into two schemes, with both listed as RIS3 pipeline schemes:

- M1 Leicester western access: "The M1 Leicester Western Access scheme is specifically looking at the transport problems that exist on the M1 between J21 where the M1 connects to the M69 and J21a where it connects to A46". https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/ ... sthrough=1 (via C2R).
- M1 North Leicestershire extra capacity: One can surmise that this covers the 14 mile stretch from J21a to J23a.

The DfT contract info indicates that M1 Leicester Western Access has a contract start date of Jan-22 with a budget of £234,000,000.

The budget suggests something along the lines of options 5 and 6 from 2007, with a freeflow right turn for J21 and an extra lane (either ALR or widening) for J21 to J21a: http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov. ... 1_J21a.pdf

There is little info about M1 North Leicestershire extra capacity, which presumably depends on political decisions about ALR.
January 2022? Is that for outline design work etc? I haven't heard a whiff of anything happening on the ground or likely to happen in January, let alone the name of a contractor doing the works. The most I've heard was the HE enquiring in the Spring about demolishing the farm bridge between J21 and LFE, presumably for widening. No news since.
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Re: M1 Junctions 19-23A

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I have no detail beyond what I said above.
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