M69 motorway
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| M69 Motorway | |
 Road of the United Kingdom |
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| Length | 15.7 miles (25.3 km) |
| Direction | Southwest - Northeast |
| Start | Coventry |
| Primary destinations | Nuneaton Hinckley |
| End | Leicester |
| Construction dates | 1976 - 1977 |
| Motorways joined |  M6 motorway  M1 motorway |
The M69 is a motorway in Leicestershire and Warwickshire, England connecting Leicester and Coventry, completed in 1977. This 15.7 mile (25.3 km) long road is a dual three lane dual carriageway, but carries a relatively low level of traffic. It is used to provide a shorter route from the M6 eastbound and the M1 northbound and vice versa by avoiding Junction 19 on the M1 which, until the construction of the A14 in the early-1990s, provided access to the southbound carriageway only. It was built to relieve the A46 road.[1]
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Starting at the northeastern suburbs of Coventry at junction 2 of the M6, the motorway crosses the Coventry Canal and then continues northeast past Bulkington and west of Wolvey before turning more easterly to run south of Hinckley. It then crosses the Birmingham to Peterborough railway line before ending on the southwestern edge of Leicester.
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| M69 motorway | ||
| Northbound exits* | Junction | Southbound exits* |
| Leicester A5460 (A563) Northampton M1 |
M1 J21 Terminus |
Start of motorway |
| The NORTH, Nottingham M1 | No exit | |
| No exit | J2 | Hinckley B4669 |
| Nuneaton A5 Hinckley B4109 |
J1 | Nuneaton A5 Hinckley B4109 |
| Start of motorway | M6 J2 | Coventry (North), Birmingham The SOUTH, Rugby (Kettering A14) M6 Coventry (Central) A4600 Ansty B4065 |
| Coventry (North), Birmingham The SOUTH, Rugby (Kettering A14) M6 Coventry (Central) A4600 Ansty B4065 Non-motorway traffic |
Road continues as A46 (to M40) via Coventry (South) and Leamington Spa |
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- Note: M69 runs south-westerly / north-easterly for the entire route.
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