Andrew Smith
JUST DO IT, THE RESIDENTS REALLY SHOULD NOT BE SO NAIVE THAT CHANGES WOULD HAPPEN... OR ARE THEY WAITING FOR THE CASH HANDOUTS.. GET REAL ITS PROGRESS...IF THEY DO NOT LIKE IT... MOVE... THEY ARE GETTING LIKE THE AIRPORT VILLAGERS...THEY WOULD BE THE FIRST TO MOAN IF THEY COULD NOT MANAGE TO USE THE M1 EASILY..!!!!!
R H oskins
The M25 should be used as an
example.Where it has been widened they have had to use variable speed limits.
Brian Twigger
Rather than widen the M1 the A1 should be motorway all the way to give more north south options. All thats needed on M1 is longer off lanes to most exits, not more lanes that no one will use as car drivers only use lanes two and three now.And as for J24 and kegworth so called bypass witch brain dead expert came up with that. over complicated plan!
S. MARSTON
COULD SOMEONE COME UP WITH A VIABLE OPTION TO IMPROVE THIS SECTION OF THE M1
darren parker
money should be spent instead on rail hubs where lorries can be driven straight on to trains. long distances would be covered by rail, then the lorries would just drive from theses rail hubs to their destination. this would greatly reduce the number and size of lorries on the road (which are the vehicles which damage the road surfaces most). they do it on the continent, it makes sense. would also reduce pollution as the train is the cleanest method of travel when u consider volumes that are moved. Take the lorries off the road, so no need to widen the road.
Nigel Porter
Hello,
Why don't the highway authorities consider introducing car park and ride schemes at major motorway junctions to relieve congestion and take thousands of cars off the motorway each year. It would clearly make sense (in terms of environmental and financial costs) to have 70 people travelling on one luxury coach than all those people travelling individually in their own cars.
Kind Regards
Nigel Porter
Katy Beadle
Rather than spending billions of pounds extending a fairly small part of the the M1, the government should invest that money in public transport to reduce; carbon dioxide emissions, air pollution, congestion and stress.
Rosemary Bennett
I live on Charnwood Drive, in Leicester Forest East. Our garden backs on to the M1 embankment, which,at present is well planted with mature trees, as is the back of our garden. The proposal was, in the last draft for M1 'improvements' to increase the, already ample, four lanes northbound and southbound to six lanes in each direction, doing away with the pollution blocking embankments, which also support wildlife, absorb carbon dioxide and block a certain amount of the inevitable noise.I am, obviously, not in favour of the widening.However, there is a problem with southbound traffic queuing during the rush hour. Maybe this could be allieviated by allowing southbound traffic to exit at junction 21a, thus reducing the load on Narborough Road South, also.
John Allen
The M1 should have been widened ten years ago. Similarly the A42 should now be upgraded to motorway standard, whilst adding an extra lane along the resulting whole M42.
To make the Motorway network better at delivering alternative routes around problems, the A5 has to be upgraded to motorway standards and the junctions designed to minimise lane changing.
Road users have already paid for these upgrades, but the Treasury has diverted the money elsewhere.
Lewis Williams
The M1 is certainly too busy now. Whatever is done the status quo is certainly not the answer Perhaps another M1 is?
Waste of money
It will only move the traffic to problem to somewhere else.
The money should be spent on making single carriageways into dual carriageways, the A46 for one and bypasses for places like Melton Mowbray.
E. BIGGS
i CANNOT SEE ANY BENIFIT.
UP HEAVEL TO ALL THOSE LIVING NEAR THE M1 TOGETHER WITH THE POSSABILITY OF PEOPLE LOSING THEIR PROPERTY OR OTHERS NOT BEING ABLE TO SELL.
Colin Wells
There was a scheme by the Central Railway Group to rebuild the Great Central Railway from the Channel Tunnel to Liverpool and carry container lorriws on it instead of them having to clog up the motorway - all paid for by private invesrment, but the idiot government minister, Alistair Darling refused to let it happen!!!
Now we taxpayers have got to fork out for massively expensive motorway widening. The government should allow the Great Central scheme to be revived, so the motorway can be freed up and won't require widening. They won't of course but you should demand to know why and don't be fobbed off.
Gail Pegg, Leicester.
The cost of widening the M1 would be better spent on a motorway link to the east coast, it is the only coast without a motortway Link.
carole hunter
Where is road widening going to stop? When we have motorways that have 6,7,8 lanes of traffic both ways? Why not make public transport better and cheaper so that we don't have to rely on the roads so much.
Kieron Willans
The stretch of the M1 in question is often extremely busy and widening will do a lot to improve the traffic flow.I cannot see how adding an extra lane on either side is going to create too many problems for residents.I would have thought the contract allows for the building of a soundproofing wall by the residential areas.Most of the time the worries and fears are unfounded.
david cooze
Is there a solicitor that specialises in compensation of the M1 widening ?
Mark & Alison Thomas
The proposal to build a direct link between the M1 and M69 was unknown until recently, and the Highways Agency's website has no detail on how this will impact people who live around Junction 21. Until people are given full details, Mr Turton's reassurances will count for very little.
Catherine Davie
Nice idea but wouldn't it attract more traffic? The conditions are so conjested that I am lucky enough to start work half an hour later and finish half an hour later. It shouldn't take me 2 hours to get to Fosse park with public transport from Whitwick. Driving to work in the rush hour would take me 3 times longer than normal.Why can't we take a leaf out of Europe's book and have better transport? Catherine Davie
