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Always had thoughts that from the little roundabout they were going to take the dual carraigeway on and go thru the fields towards Irby by Horrocks wood between Irby and Pensby and down between Heswall and Thurstaston to a Dee Bridge the route is mostly fields.

Perhaps thats where that unused exit on Greasby roundabout was supposed to head?.

Think that was going to be the Sainsbury's exit as at one time I think they were after taking the whole area until people kicked up and wanted it as park or recreational area as they now have it.

There is an excellent book "The Motorway Achievement", written by an engineer, covers all the motorway histories in the NW. I thought it would be really dull, but it was actually very interesting, I guess because you are probably familiar with most of the locations, and the locations are almost still there.

The guy that runs this site is very knowledgable
http://www.cbrd.co.uk/motorway/
I think the link is already up at the beginning of this thread .

OMG
I know its old but I was looking at this today from the link billy gave here cbrd.co.uk
After much googling about looking for a photo of the bridge at junction 5 before demolition, I am to be led back here

It really is a small world

the flyovers in Birkenhead - showed the power of the road lobby - from post-war times onwards.

The grandiose ideas - put a junction in at Moreton spur in case there 'might be' a Dee Crossing bridge, with no junction for the much bigger Upton Road settlements - the M53 sweeping down to west of Chester - when the M56 was already doing that...etc.

Money and resources seemed to have been thrown willy-nilly at roads in this period...