Extra lanes to ease traffic problems

Morgan Sindall, VINCI Construction Grands Projets and Sir Robert McAlpine, working as joint venture MVM, are widening the M1 motorway to help reduce congestion on a section that is currently operating above capacity. The £340 million project for the Highways Agency will see a 23km stretch of the M1 widened from three to four lanes in each direction between junction 25 at Sandiacre and junction 28 at Pinxton near Nottingham in the East Midlands. The introduction of the extra lane will alleviate the traffic congestion on this section of the M1, which currently carries between 105,000 and 125,000 vehicles each day.