A453 Dualling

[Racing Green]

Originally Posted by NerveAgent

Has anything happened with this yet?

Living in South Manchester and having family in West Bridgford I can not wait for this to be completed. It will make trips home breeze. Its so annoying coming off the a50 which seems to be the fasted flowing road in the country and then getting stuck just by the "Nottingham 9 miles" signs

Work is due to start in the period January-March 2013.
http://www.highways.gov.uk/roads/projects/4337.aspx

[Lears City]

Hurry up and built it! You might be thinking of trips home, but I can't wait for a road that gets me out of Nottingham as fast as possible...

[CharlieP]

I'd like to see a masterplan for the whole M1/A50/A6/A453 nexus, so that all journeys are improved. Unfortunately this would probably involve a second Spaghetti Junction, that would cause problems for East Midlands Airport.

[triblist]

Originally Posted by CharlieP

I'd like to see a masterplan for the whole M1/A50/A6/A453 nexus, so that all journeys are improved. Unfortunately this would probably involve a second Spaghetti Junction, that would cause problems for East Midlands Airport.

This was planned as part of the previously proposed M1 21-30 widening before it was scrapped in favor of managed motorway.
http://www.highways.gov.uk/roads/doc..._M1_J23a24.pdf
Contract 1 (25-28 just made it through in time).

There were even greater plans proposed in 1994 - with virtually all movements free-flow. I'll see if I can find it...

[triblist]

Found it:
http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/forum/...le.php?id=2703

[Pete JC83]

Originally Posted by triblist

Found it:
http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/forum/...le.php?id=2703

That would've been so much better! They did the A6 part of it, obviously now the A50. The A453 needs to connect with the M1 in the way that the A46 effortlessly does.

[CharlieP]

My plans would be even grander:

From M1 Northbound:
- A453 NE to Nottingham
- A50 E to Grantham/A1
- A6 SE to Kegworth/Leicester
- A453 SW to Donington
- A50 W to Stoke/M6
- A6 NW to Derby

From M1 Southbound:
- A50 E to Grantham/A1, connecting to A453 to Nottingham
- A6 SE to Kegworth/Leicester
- M42 SW to Birmingham
- A453 SW to Donington
- A50 W to Stoke/M6, connecting to A6 to Derby

One can dream...

[Daviegraham]

Small update:

http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/Pr...ail/story.html

tl;dr: Ecological work underway, Archaeological surveys and installing fencing about to begin.

In Autumn more fencing and tree/hedge removal will commence.

Sometime in 2013: Road expansion.