M11 motorway

M11 motorway in the UK
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Basic data
Operator:	Highways Agency
Overall length:	80.0 km (49.7  mi )
Countries :	England
Development condition:	AS 4–8: six lanes AS 8–14: four lanes
The M11 Motorway at Duxford, towards Cambridge
Course of the road Greater London Continue on  ( ) London (4)  North Circular Road, West End , The City , Docklands Essex (5)  Loughton ( HAS London) (6)  Watford , Heathrow , Dartford Crossing , Gatwick (7)  Chelmsford , Harlow B1256 (8th)  Stansted Airport , Bishop's Stortford (8th)  Birchanger Green (at the previous junction) (9)  Newmarket , Norwich (HAS London) Cambridgeshire (10)  Duxford , Royston , Saffron Walden (11)  Cambridge (S), Harston , Royston (12)  Cambridge, Sandy (13)  Cambridge, Bedford (HAS London) (14)  Newmarket, Ely End of the highway Continue on  north of England , Huntingdon

The M11 motorway ( English for 'Motorway M11') is a motorway in England, which runs roughly from the south to the north and connects the A406 (also known as the Northern Ring Road ) in the north-east London borough of South Woodford with the A14 in Cambridge .

The motorway was built in the 1970s, mainly for the quick connection of London to the newly built airport at Stansted. In 1975 the Harlow – Stansted section was opened, followed by the connection to London in the south in 1977. Further sections to the north were opened in 1979 (Stansted – Stump Cross) and 1980 (west bypass of Cambridge).

Originally, the motorway was supposed to begin in the interior of London in the Hackney district , which is still reflected in the junction numbering to this day. These plans were never implemented, but in the 1990s a motorway-like road (part of the A12 ) was built on roughly the same route and thus fulfills the function of the undeveloped section.

Web links

Commons : M11 motorway  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• M11 on cbrd.co.uk