Junctions that are Incomplete / that left space for a flyover
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I’m sure there are dozens more
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Staples Corner, where the M1 was supposed to continue further into London: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.57314 ... a=!3m1!1e3
And the junction for Hoddesdon on the A10, which should have been an interchange with Ringway 4: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.76493 ... a=!3m1!1e3
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Stansted Airport (strictly an underpass not a flyover) - https://goo.gl/maps/xyBMPvjQwHySgar98 The A120 junction immediately southwest was also originally built without a flyover, but the flyover that was built (carrying the airport exit route over the A120) is not the one originally planned, which would have carried the eastbound A120 over the airport access road, with the airport road being the main line through the junction.
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From the SABRE Wiki: A4150 :
The A4150 (also known as the Wolverhampton Inner Ring Road) forms a loop of the city centre of just over two miles, meeting the vast majority of the radial routes heading into the city centre.
It is entirely dual carriageway throughout its length, and the individual sections (except one) are named after nearby churches. The number A4150 does not appear on any signs throughout its length, and indeed is only used at the nearby roundabout junction between Waterloo Road
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https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@54.52889 ... 6656?hl=en
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No-one's mentioned the incomplete junction on the M53 yet either where it used to change to the M531.
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For me there are two definitions. "Future proofed" is where there is just space provision, commonly grassed over, between or besides the carriageway. "Stubs" are where there is actual road surfaced provision for a turnoff. Sometimes they are still there because a different alignment was done, more commonly because nothing was built at all. Future proofing/stubs have a high likelihood, it now transpires, of never being used, which makes the associated cost, even of just land purchase, wasted.
Some stubs were sufficiently substantially built that they have structures etc that are never used. The M53 at Hooton, Wirral, where it was once to turn towards Wales, has now had the bridge removed, but still slaloms under where it was. And then there's the "ski jumps" on the M8 at West Street in Glasgow, or the viaducts over nothing at the bottom of the M11 in East London.
Incomplete structures and routes always seem to have a certain fascination. The London Underground has a considerable number around the network as well.
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It is Penn Inn, just outside Newton Abbot on the A380.
Does anyone know when the Kingsteignton/Newton Abbot bypass was originally built?
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(And as an aside note the strange number-free direction sign)
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Those residual stubs are the opposite. Those flyovers were actually built in the late 1960s, but demolished 30 years later, for a reason I can't see. I believe there was some turf war over their maintenance between different authorities.fras wrote: ↑Fri Sep 24, 2021 12:43 Exiting the Mersey Tunnel in Birkenhead.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.38869 ... 8192?hl=en
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Bir ... 3009?hl=en
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Sometimes referred to as 'passive' and 'active' future-proofing.
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In which case the second is surely the matching one at the other end of the Alton bypass!OliverH wrote: ↑Thu Sep 23, 2021 22:29 here is the first: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.15674 ... a=!3m1!1e3
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A million SABRE pounds (cash value: 1 pint) to anyone who can explain why this stub was built on the M65 as part of the 1997 extension. None of us have ever found an answer in an archive and there's nowhere obvious (well, not without huge disruption to the roads involved back in 1997) for it to connect to.
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