A55 (M53 J12) Hoole Island

Layout and signage

N/A   A56









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  Chester (N)
Hoole
Mickle Trafford
A56
Ellesmere Port
Birkenhead
Liverpool
Manchester & Airport
M53 Link (M56 Link, M6 Link)

Lane configuration

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  • Lane 1 continues, with option to exit.
  • Lane 2 continues ahead.

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  • Lane 1 continues, with option to exit.
  • Lane 2 continues ahead.

Other events

  • Signs End of motorway regulations
  • Signs Start of motorway regulations

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The one great attempt to make London’s streets logical - and how one retired chauffeur’s favourite routes changed the way you get around the capital.

A bridge under troubled bridges

A bridge that was ruined by another bridge, and a type of highway planning beyond any of the UK’s worst nightmares.

The monster seen from below

What might it have been like to stand in one spot and witness the arrival, and the uncertainty, of plans for an urban motorway in West London?

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Rainbow Signals

The annual London Pride event was accompanied, in 2016, by some quite unusual changes to traffic lights around Trafalgar Square. The green men went missing — and seven new symbols took their place.

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