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Part of this original M1 is now a spur to Dublin Airport, while another part between Whitehall to the Port Tunnel portals is now narrowed to two+one lanes (although still grade-separated) as a result of the Dublin Port Tunnel work. There are toll fees for use of the motorway between junctions 7 and 10, the section which forms the Drogheda ...
By the mid 2000s the M1 in Belfast had high traffic flows at peak times and suffered from congestion. To relieve this, work commenced early in 2006 to replace the roundabout at junction 1 with a fully grade separated junction through which the M1 now flows directly onto the A12 Westlink dual carriageway. [6]
The first section of motorway was the Preston Bypass in Lancashire, now part of the M6 motorway, which opened in 1958. [3] The M1 was Britain's first full-length motorway and opened in 1959. [citation needed] The early M1 had no speed limits, crash barriers, or lighting, and had soft shoulders rather than hard.
Prior to the junction with the A14 being created, there was a simple fork junction, opened in 1971, joining the M6 to the M1. At that stage traffic from Birmingham on the M6 wishing to travel north and east left the M6 at junction 1 to join the A426 road. The interchange had been grossly overloaded. [8]
The M10 was thus built to distribute southbound traffic on the M1 [3] onto the A5 (now A5183) and, as an alternative, via the North Orbital Road and the A6 to the A1 Barnet Bypass. The M45 was the equivalent distributing spur at the northern end of the M1, and is thus regarded as a sister motorway to the M10.
The A453 becomes trunk road again just north of M1 junction 23A where it joins a spur of the A42 at a roundabout on the parish boundary of Kegworth, which was built when the A42 opened. Later the Donington Park services were added in July 1999. It runs parallel to the motorway to M1 junction 24, to link to the motorway and the A50 road.
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Until the M1 motorway was completed in the 1960s this route formed the main route between Rugby and Leicester, now much quieter as all but local traffic uses the motorway. However, the local traffic has increased as Magna Park, a prominent East Midlands warehouse facility, has developed close to Lutterworth.