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Old September 28th 07, 11:22 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Olof Lagerkvist Olof Lagerkvist is offline
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Default Unfinished part of the M23?

Boltar wrote:

If you look on Google earth at the northern most bit of the M23 north
of the M25 just where it joins the A23 you can see what looks like an
unmetalled bit of the motorway continue over a bridge with trucks and
cars parked on it. Further on still theres a completely unused bridge
that goes over the A23 surrounded by scrubby woods.
Anyone know what this bit is used for now and was the M23 originally
supposed to have continued further north than it does now?



Turn on the "Google Earth Community" layer in Google Earth. Someone
called "londingham" has placed a placemark there with a comment that it
was left unfinished in the 1970's.

http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthrea.../Number/331643
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M23_motorway

No idea about what the bit is used for though, but looks like some kind
of storage area for highway construction/maintenance works or something
like that.

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