Highways England - Archive

[A303Chris]

High all.

This is work related, but does anyone know of a Highways England archive of old schemes which have been completed and open.

I am trying to find details of the M4 junction 8/9 slip road widening which was done about 5 to 6 years ago and can not find anything on the website.

Surely they must have to keep details of old and completed schemes.

Cheers All

Chris

[the cheesecake man]

http://www.ukmotorwayarchive.org.uk/

[Bryn666]

High all.

This is work related, but does anyone know of a Highways England archive of old schemes which have been completed and open.

I am trying to find details of the M4 junction 8/9 slip road widening which was done about 5 to 6 years ago and can not find anything on the website.

Surely they must have to keep details of old and completed schemes.

Cheers All

Chris

Short of the National Archives online mirror, no. They're atrocious at record keeping.

[c2R]

That's where our wiki could come in handy - I try and put as much information on as I can, but can't keep on top of ensuring that all schemes are added and kept up to date, and that we have copies of all scheme documentation that is released - we could do with more archivologists to help with this. Unfortunately, this isn't one where we have any detail about the scheme: Holyport_Interchange

Also, there's the roads.org.uk scheme pages which may have some details on.

You might find stuff on archive.org.uk, although this can be difficult unless you know the original URL and they've allowed it to crawl the site....

[jervi]

If it is that recent, you can probably put in a FOI to get it.
I'd imagine all of that stuff relating to projects within the last decade are still on their systems.
However, I'd wait until COVID clears before putting unnecessary stress on to workers at HE

[Johnathan404]

Google Earth shows that neither of the M4 exit sliproads at 8/9 have been widened since around 2006. The roundabout itself was actually narrowed in around 2009. Street View goes back to 2008 and confirms there has been no carriageway widening.

Are you searching for the right project?

Junction 10 had widening works in 2015, for instance.

[hoagy_ytfc]

8/9 def had widening on the slips. I’m not sure I recall the actual roundabout being widened.

In google earth compare the westbound off slip between 2004 and 2008

[hoagy_ytfc]

PS that timescale ties in with the recollection that I was going through the roadworks most days, as it would have been when I was working for Opta.

[jackal]

8/9 def had widening on the slips. I’m not sure I recall the actual roundabout being widened.

In google earth compare the westbound off slip between 2004 and 2008

And the eastbound off slip. Both were widened to three lanes between 12/31/04 and 10/08/08 as per GE.