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The closure will start after 8pm Friday 3 September and the motorway will reopen by 6am on Monday 6 September. The M4 will be closed in both directions over the weekend of 10 September — 13 September between Junctions 3 Hayes and 4b M25 interchange. The closure will start after 8pm Friday 10 September and the motorway will reopen by 6am on Monday 13 September. The M4 will be closed in both directions over the weekend of 17 September — 20 September Junctions 5 Langley and 6 Slough.
The closure will start after 8pm Friday 17 September and the motorway will reopen by 6am on Monday 20 September. The closure will start after 8pm Friday 24 September and the motorway will reopen by 6am on Monday 27 September.
Our August scheme newsletter gives more information about full weekend closures of the M4 planned for Please check before you travel. In June the project hit the halfway point with the work to extend the New Thames Bridge at Bray that carries the M4 over the river. This bridge - started in , delayed by World War II, and completed as part of the new M4 motorway that opened in — is being widened on the north side by 8 metres to accommodate the extra lanes required for the new smart motorway.
We are continuing our steady progress on the western section between junctions 8 and 9 to junction 12 which started in July We expect to finish most of the work on this section by the latter part of , before opening it as a smart motorway during The eastern section is more complex due to a significant amount of bridge work and will open in We are following Government policy which is that construction activity should continue where it can be done safely.
All our sites have strict safeguarding measures to prevent the spread of COVID and none of our sites are open to the public. With traffic volumes on our roads still lower than usual, we are continuing to work before traffic flows eventually return to normal.
We plan our work carefully in order to minimise travel disruption. Once our work is completed this stretch of the M4 will use the latest technology to monitor traffic flow and set speed limits. This will help keep traffic moving smoothly, instead of continually stopping and starting. B etween junctions 3 and 12 the hard shoulder will be converted to a traffic lane, so there will be four lanes available for use by road users.
Between junctions 4 and 4b, there will be five lanes. There will also be five lanes on the eastbound approach to Junction 4b. The mile gap between Tormarton and the Maidenhead By-Pass remained to be filled.
The opening of the 50 mile length between Badbury and Maidenhead By-Pass Holyport meant that there were miles of continuous motorway between London and South Wales. The plan then existing based on work done by the Berkshire and Wiltshire County Councils prior to the outbreak of war in was for a motorway keeping to the south of the Bath Road A4 from Maidenhead to Chippenham, apart from a short length north of Calne, and then passing to the north of the Castle Combe valley.
The lengths in Wiltshire and east of Reading were being protected from development by the local planning authorities.
At an early stage in the investigation it became evident that Reading and Swindon were the two focal points and that the protected route in Wiltshire should be abandoned. The route then recommended by the Consulting Engineers for the 30 miles eastwards from Tormarton to a point near Swindon has been adhered to ever since with only minor variations, but before a satisfactory route could be found for the 48 miles between Swindon and Holyport no less than miles of routes were surveyed and studied.
During these investigations there was much public concern about the possible routes for the motorway east of Swindon. One of the routes passed to the north of Swindon and followed the Vale of White Horse to two crossings of the River Thames near Wallingford and Henley.
Another adhered close to the Bath Road A4 between Maidenhead and Kintbury and known as the Direct Route, crossed the Thames at Shiplake and Streatley and proceeded almost due west, keeping to the north of Lambourn. This was the route initially preferred by the Minister, but changes were made to it to avoid most of the high downland and the Oxfordshire beechwoods. The concept was again re-examined to take account of possible developments arising from the Channel Tunnel project and the South East England traffic study, then recently completed.
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