Motorway

[keys]

What was the first Motorway in the UK?

What was the first idea, to delivery something or meet someone? What was the speacial reason.

Thanks

[Loosehead]

Well the first Motorway was unsurprisingly the M1

I can't see what you are getting at for the second question.

[sddsddean]

The first bit of motorway was the Preston Bypass which now forms part of the M6.

[Artemis]

The first motorway was definately The Preston by-pass which became part of the M6

[tartanwiz]

We didn't invent the motorway, the Germans did - the autobahn.  Under Hitler as it happens. Like the Volkswagen Beetle, the helicopter and modern rocket engines, it's one of the few things the Nazis gave us.  

[Oneeyedtic]

The very first motorway was the Preston Bypass on the A6, which is today part of the M6 and M55. Originally it had two lanes each way with a wide central reservation to add extra lanes later. Its single junction in the middle, the Samlesbury Interchange, survives intact but the M6 itself is now four lanes and the road is unrecognisable. The first full length motorway was the M1, running from London (Aldenham Temporary Motorway Terminal, close to present-day j5) to Rugby (junction 18). Its original spurs, the M10 and M45, opened at the same time and were designed to get traffic off the road before its two terminii back on to the old network. Junctions 1-3 opened later on.

[dosset]

yes def the m6

[bigchillum]

i think motorways were introduced in britain as a means of moving army troops, supplies etc around the country at great speed (for the year).