GC3FV33 Ilson Transport links 2 (Traditional Cache) in East Midlands, United Kingdom created by Smudger105e

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Hidden : 3/1/2012

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Size: Size: other (other)

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Geocache Description:

A quick cache by the side of the M1. Do not climb on the embankments or retaining walls, the cache is not up there, all you will find are fast cars and Lorries etc!!

The continuation of the motorway from junction 18 towards Yorkshire was carried out as a series of extensions between 1965 and 1968. Diverging from the A5, the motorway takes a more northerly route through the East Midlands, via Leicester, Loughborough, Nottingham to Sheffield, where the M18 splits from the M1 at junction 32 to head to Doncaster. Originally, the M1 was planned to end at Doncaster but it was decided to make what was going to be the "Leeds and Sheffield Spur" the primary route with the 11-mile (18 km) section to the A1(M) south of Doncaster given a separate motorway number. In 2006 plans were developed to widen 240 miles (390 km) from Leicester through to Leeds (junctions 21-42) which were subject to widespread road protests. The Transport Select Committee then claimed the Highways Agency had 'lost budgetary control' and the National Audit Office was asked to investigate why the price of the project has risen from £3.7 billion to £5.1 billion in 2007. Plans were scaled back with widening to 4 lanes limited to the section from the M25 to Luton (junctions 6a to 10) which was already in progress and from Nottingham and Mansfield (junctions 25-28) with hard-shoulder running being proposed for other sections. Work to widen the 15-mile (24 km) section from Nottingham to Mansfield (J25-J28) to dual 4-lanes began in January 2008 and was completed in 2010[15] at a cost of £340 million. Average speed cameras which were installed initially only for the period of construction have proven to be so effective that they have been retained permanently on this section of the motorway.