version of this document in a more accessible format, please email If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need a 11 mile queues. Please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. All those injured have been taken to hospital. Schedule : From 19:00 on 19 August 2020 to 07:00 on 20 August 2020. "At around 2.50pm on Tuesday a … Published 25 September … If there is funding, a second part will begin, upgrading the northbound entrance and the A41 southbound entrance.After J1a the motorway is four lanes, and carries on for 3 miles (4.8 km) until it reaches J2 for the A355 to Slough and the A40 to Beaconsfield and Gerrards Cross. Further up the M40, there had been serious traffic problems caused by the junction at Cherwell Valley services. Reason : Road marking works are planned. Lanes Closed : There will be two of three lanes closed. Return to normal: Normal traffic conditions are expected between 07:00 and 07:15 on 12 Aug 2020. We’ll send you a link to a feedback form. Beaconsfield services is a motorway service station on the M40 motorway located at junction 2. The M40 had been expected to be the last major motorway, but in 1986 the Conservative government announced a major new road-building scheme, Beginning in 1997, the motorway was widened to dual-four-lane between J1A and J3 (High Wycombe East) under a Work to separate local and long-distance traffic at J4 was completed in 2007, including a new dedicated left-turn slip lane between the A404 Marlow Bypass and the Oxford-bound M40; additional lanes on the slip roads entering the roundabout; an additional lane between the A404 Marlow Hill and the London-bound M40; and a five-lane cross-link between the M40 and the A404(S).In August 2010 work started on J9, upgrading the southbound exit slip road to three lanes, and similar widening on the connecting A34 and A41 junctions. J2 is the standard J3 is 3 miles (4.8 km) further on, and serves the A40 for High Wycombe East and Loudwater. The first section opened in June 1967.
Status: Currently Active. Status : Pending. M40 Junction 2 Southbound Slip Road (Beaconsfield Services) Response to a request for information about accident data.
M40/M42 interchange: smart motorway. The motorway is dual three lanes except for junction 1A to junction 3 (which is dual four lanes) a short section in-between the exit and entry The motorway between London and Oxford was constructed in stages between 1967 and 1974. The junction is incomplete as a half-diamond interchange, with access only from the northbound carriageway and access to the southbound M40. There is a single service area connected by road to both carriageways. Response to a request for information about accident data. Beaconsfield services were opened in 2009 and are operated by Extra. Location : The M40 northbound at junction J1A . Food (20) | Petrol (3) | Lodging (2) MAP M40 junction: J13 Northbound exit: Leamington Spa | | Southbound exit: Leamington Spa Food (4) | Petrol (1) | Lodging (1) MAP M40 junction: J12 Northbound exit: Gaydon | | Southbound exit: Gaydon Food (1) | Petrol (2) | Lodging (0) MAP M40 junction: J11 The design and execution of the revised design of new junction is greatly derided, mostly because of the three roundabouts giving no priority to the main flow of traffic, (A43-M40 London), and the slip roads off and onto the motorway (except the one accessed via the services) have sharp turns and adverse cambers, which results lorries frequently tipping over and spilling their loads especially on the roundabout at the end of the northern carriageway.
Beaconsfield services is a single-site MSA at M40 junction 2, and it is also signed on A355. Traffic levels on the M40 are having a significant impact on the quality of life of the communities living along this route. As well, the slip roads onto the motorway give little manoeuvring space as both join the motorway under (the same) bridge built for the old junction.The motorway then follows a winding route north for 10 miles (16 km) until Junction 11, the Another 12 miles (19 km) north-west along the motorway is Junction 12, serving The junction is completed 2 miles (3.2 km) farther on at Junction 14, another restricted access junction, with access to the A452 from the southbound M40, and the access on to the motorway is in a northbound direction. Nearest town: 1.42m from High Wycombe. Buckinghamshire M40 Live Travel Updates Wed, 12 Aug 2020 18:12:15 GMT Improving the M40 and M42 motorways between M42 junction 3 and 4 and M40 junction 16 by making it a smart motorway. This was the first part of the work at this busy junction. If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need a It was from the Between junctions 3 and 4, the beginnings of slip roads were built on both carriageways for a service area at Abbey Barns between Beaconsfield and High Wycombe.Late in the 1960s, not long after the first stretch opened, the Ministry of Transport announced the possibility of building a motorway to link At the time of being fully opened, the original M40 had been widened, creating a dual three-lane motorway from start to finish. Location: The M40 southbound exit slip at junction J4 (High Wycombe) . A force spokesman said: "The M40 remains closed northbound between junctions 8 and 8A northbound following a serious collision. This is a restricted junction; the only flows are from the westbound M40 to the A40 and from the A40 to the London-bound M40.