M180 motorway

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The M180 motorway (English for, highway M180 '), also known as South Humberside Motorway is a motorway in England and runs in east-west direction of Thorne Scunthorpe Barnetby after. Here, the highway merges into the highway A180 and continues up to Grimsby. The M180 is part of the Welsh starting in Europe Holyhead Road 22 In Immingham it ends for the moment and is in Amsterdam continues on the European continent.

At the western end of the highway, there are connections to the M18, which runs in a southwesterly direction to Doncaster and Sheffield. Following the motorway northwards to Goole, and subsequently at Leeds ( west ) and Hull ( east ). At the eastern end of the M180 take the A15 branches off to the north and crosses the Humber also to Hull. The A180 leads instead to the west straight past Grimsby.

Before the M180 was built, followed by the A15 coming from the south or the route of the Roman road Ermine Street. To relieve the surrounding villages, the A15 was then partially relocated a mile to the west and is connected to the new highway. The from here to the city Brigg extending first portion of the M180 was initially called the A18 (M). After the opening of the Humber Bridge four years later, a new branch of A15 was also built to the north, which crosses the Humber directly to Hull. Due to delays in the construction of the bridge over the Trent the highway could be completely released in October 1979.

Apart from a short section at Scunthorpe the highway is expanded to six lanes. It is worth noting: At its beginning the M180 is connected by a roundabout with the M18, while the M181 branches of a classic Autobahndreieck from him.

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