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298 km
Lymm Interchange
Non-standard interchange
Not a terminus
M56, A50, B5158
Full access
Service area here
Lymm Truck Stop
Poplar 2000
The second part of the story, where we learn why exactly the M4 gets narrower on the final approach to Europe’s biggest city.
The M4 into London was one of the UK's earliest and most ambitious motorway projects. It was bold, pioneering... and almost instantly regretted.
An introduction to what I write, and why I write it, and where my strange new road sign simulator fits in to all this.
This is the story of one man at Oxfordshire County Council who pre-empted the development of modern road signs - much to the annoyance of the men from the Ministry.
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Lymm Truck Stop
