A46 road

The A46 is a trunk road in England.

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Trunk road - England

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It starts at Cleethorpes, then heads west into Grimsby. It turns south at Caistor, bypasses Market Rasen, then heads toward Lincoln. The eight-mile £19m part-dual-carriageway Lincoln Relief Road opened in December 1985. After bypassing Lincoln, it starts following the route of the old Fosse Way, bar bypasses. The route passes the old RAF Swinderby. This section to the A1 has always been very busy, as it is the main road to Lincoln. On July 10th 2003, the eight-mile £28m dual-carriageway Newark to Lincoln Improvement was opened by David Jamieson. The six-mile £34m Newark-On-Trent Relief Road opened in October 1990. The road continues south-west, meeting the A52 near Bingham. Close by is RAF Newton. As it enters Leicestershire, it is going nearly directly south. The Newark to Widmerpool Improvement will make this section grade-separated dual-carriageway, closing the gap in the corridor. The road bypasses Syston. The eight-mile £36m Leicester Western Bypass opened in November 1995. The road merges into the M1 motorway at Junction 21A, with a short section of the A46 being motorway. This junction is south facing only, with no access to or from the north.

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Cleethorpes - Grimsby - Caistor - Market Rasen - Lincoln - Fosse Way - RAF Swinderby - A1 - David Jamieson - Newark-On-Trent - A52 - Bingham - RAF Newton - Leicestershire - Syston - Leicester Western Bypass - M1 motorway

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The A46 used to exist between Leicester and Coventry, but it has been replaced by the M69 motorway. Consequently the A46 reappears at Coventry. The five-mile £21m Coventry Eastern Bypass opened in May 1989. At the southern end of that bypass, it merges with the A45 for a short distance before forming a bypass for the Warwickshire towns of Kenilworth and Warwick, and the small village of Leek Wootton The Kenilworth Bypass opened in June 1974, and in some stretches is three-lanes. It meets the M40 motorway at the Longbridge roundabout, one of the busiest motorway junctions in the United Kingdom, that is notorious for its congestion, exasperating Jeremy Clarkson. The roundabout cannot cope with the A46's through-traffic, as well as the A429. South of the M40, the A46 follows its original route for a short distance until Stratford upon Avon. The seven-mile £12m Stratford Northern Bypass opened in June 1987 as the A422. It then turns west along the former A422 to Alcester. From Alcester, the eight-mile £19m dual-carriageway Norton-Lenchwick Bypass opened in August 1995. This road carries the route south to Evesham. The four-mile £7m single-carriageway Evesham Bypass opened in July 1987 as the A435. The one-mile £1.3m Sedgeberrow Bypass opened in May 1989 as the A435. The A46 then runs south for a few miles along the former A435 route, before turning west, on the old A438 route, towards the M5 motorway. The A435 resumes its old course from here southwards.

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Coventry - M69 motorway - A45 - Warwickshire - Kenilworth - Warwick - Leek Wootton - M40 motorway - Jeremy Clarkson - Stratford upon Avon - A422 - Alcester - Evesham - A435 - A438 - M5 motorway

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After a gap filled in by the A435, the A46 reappears on its original route on the south side of Cheltenham. It then heads through Stroud, through Nailsworth, to the M4 motorway. From the M4, the A46 heads to Bath, ending at its junction with the A4 in that town. The three-mile £45m dual-carriageway Batheaston/Swainswick Bypass opened in summer 1996.

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Cheltenham - Stroud - Nailsworth - M4 motorway - Bath - A4 - Batheaston

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