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jimboLL
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Private properties with motorway junctions

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The AP8 in the Basque region has a gated junction that leads only to a private house.
(I have tried to find this on GSV having driven past it several times, to no avail- will post a link if I manage to find it).

Are there any other motorway type roads with similar arrangements?
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jimboLL wrote: Wed Dec 05, 2018 20:44 The AP8 in the Basque region has a gated junction that leads only to a private house.
(I have tried to find this on GSV having driven past it several times, to no avail- will post a link if I manage to find it).

Are there any other motorway type roads with similar arrangements?
There's the "back way" in to RAF Welford off the M4 (with a red-bordered "Works Access Only" sign)...
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The Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory has its own access from the A24 at a location about 120 km from Rome. The laboratory is about 1400 metres underground and the access is from a slip road in the middle of the 10 km Gran Sasso Tunnel. The purpose of the laboratory is the detection of nuclear particles and 1400 metres of Appenine rock provides a good shield for parasitic partciles that emanate in outer space and/or the sun.
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I cannot vouch for its veracity, but Lancaster University folklore has it that there were supposed to be slip roads linking one of the roundabouts on the perimeter road to the M6. Certainly, there were plans for a bridge over the motorway to link to a never-built School of Medicine on the farmland on the other side, and there were also plans for a never-built platform on the West Coast railway line near the entrance to the campus.
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M53 J6 is surely the best example in the UK.

There must be quite a few examples of privately-owned infrastructure, like the Channel Tunnel.
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HS2 construction site off the M25 in Buckinghamshire (now complete)

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Owain wrote: Wed Dec 05, 2018 22:16 I cannot vouch for its veracity, but Lancaster University folklore has it that there were supposed to be slip roads linking one of the roundabouts on the perimeter road to the M6. Certainly, there were plans for a bridge over the motorway to link to a never-built School of Medicine on the farmland on the other side, and there were also plans for a never-built platform on the West Coast railway line near the entrance to the campus.
The junction with the M6 isn't proven but the bridge over is definitely known about.
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There's a back entrance into Pollok Park on the M77.

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Similarly an emergency exit from the Trafford Centre on to the anticlockwise M60.
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Owain wrote: Wed Dec 05, 2018 22:16 I cannot vouch for its veracity, but Lancaster University ... and there were also plans for a never-built platform on the West Coast railway line near the entrance to the campus.
That would have been useful when I went to the open day in 1985ish. I got a bus from Lancashire town to the uni.

Looking around Google I don't recognise anything other than the overbridge/underpass. I can barely remember anything of the visit other than the fact that I went there, and went by train. Of all the unis I applied for it's the only one I've never visited since. I'll have to try and remember to pop around next time I'm going along the M6.
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