M27 Junction 6

[sammd]

Why does the M27 not have a Junction 6? It skips from 5 to 7.

[wduk2005]

not sure on that road specificly but it probably has junction 6 on the other side of the road, i know a lot of other m-ways are like that for some reason the m26 for example, i've got the newest aa road map and it lists all the ones that are

[Grunty]

Or maybe another junction is planned between 5 and 7.

[Ethel]

http://math.colorado.edu/~rmg/roads/m27.html

[Toureman]

You always amaze me Ethel, you always find an answer when nobody else can and they are always good ones!

All the best.

[sammd]

Thanks Ethel!

[Gard]

never noticed that before, drive down it quite often, just shows how alert i am!

[POINCIANA]

Not quite an answer to the question, more of a comment on the way junctions in the UK are numbered, leading to the addition of a suffix 'a' or 'b' etc to the junction number when a new one is inserted. In New Jersey, USA and on some motorways in Spain the junctions are numbered according to the distance from the origin of the motorway; thus, for example junction 256 is 256 kilometers from Madrid. Adding a new junction poses no numbering problems at all and it serves as a quick indication of distance.