M50 motorway (Great Britain)
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The M50 motorway (English for, M50 ') is a highway in Western England in the counties of Worcestershire, Gloucestershire and Herefordshire.
This highway was built very early and after the M6 ( at Preston ) and M1 (with its tributaries ), it was only the third opened motorway in the UK. The section between Tewkesbury and Ross-on -Wye was opened to traffic in 1960, two years after the construction started and opened in 1962 to the section to the node with the M5, the first section was completed to Birmingham until then. The reason so early, to build this highway before the main routes, probably lies in the strategic significance as part of the route between Birmingham and South Wales, which was then considered important.
The M50 is today one of the few highways still far in the original condition, apart from the modern guardrails and rebuilt node with the M5. It remains still four lanes and the breakdown lane is too narrow for today's standards and hears at every bridge or overpass on. On the Queen Hill Bridge over the Severn even only one lane per direction is expanded in full width. But the connection points have not been repaired, such as the connection point 3 at Gorsley where the training and driveway areas consists only of quite square and not separate tracks, which end just a few meters behind the highway on a local road.