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The Catthorpe Interchange is a major intersection at the southern end of the M6, the western end of the A14 and Junction 19 of the M1 near the village of Catthorpe in Leicestershire, England. It was developed in 1994 when a link to the A14 was added to the pre-existing M1/M6 junction by joining the M1, M6 and A14 to the country lane between Catthorpe and Swinford. The interchange currently handles 100,000 vehicles per day, is overloaded and has a poor safety record. Traffic attempting to avoid the interchange causes congestion and nuisance in nearby towns and villages.〔 The Highways Agency acknowledged〔("M1 Junction 19 Improvement Scheme" ), Highways Agency, accessed 2014-01-01〕 that the layout of the interchange resulted in a serious accident problem, inconvenience for those wishing to travel between villages in the area, and delays and congestion for both motorway and non-motorway traffic. Work began in January 2014 to upgrade the junction to a new free-flowing layout. ==History== The interchange was created in 1994 to join the newly established A14 east-west trunk road, which is part of the Trans European Road Network, with the existing M1 and M6 motorways. A non-standard layout was adopted and a sub-standard dumb-bell roundabout was created to handle the A14 traffic, and which is now grossly inadequate.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.highways.gov.uk/roads/documents/M1_J19_Explanatory_Statement.pdf )〕 Prior to the junction with the A14 being created, there was a simple fork junction, opened in 1971, joining the M6 to the M1. At that stage traffic, travelling from Birmingham on the M6, wishing to travel North and East left the M6 at junction 1 to join the A426 road. The interchange is now grossly overloaded.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.highways.gov.uk/roads/documents/M1_J19_Explanatory_Statement.pdf )〕 In the five years prior to March 2010, more than twelve people have been killed, and many more have been seriously injured in crashes at the interchange, dubbed as the 'mad mile'. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Catthorpe Interchange」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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