M10 motorway

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Template:UK motorway routebox Image:20051002-005.jpg The M10 is a short (4.5km) section of motorway opened in 1959 to the south of St Albans, England. It links the M1 motorway to the A414 North Orbital road at Park Street roundabout. It has no intermediate junctions.

This section was designed and constructed as part of the St Albans bypass (along with the M1 junctions 5–10a). It was a spur built to distribute the traffic heading south on the M1 onto the A5 (now A5183) and, via the North Orbital Road and the A6, the Barnet Bypass (A1, though the main route from the A1 to the M1 was via the A41 Watford bypass to Berrygrove). This was because the capacity of the A roads was much less than that of the motorway, and the traffic therefore needed to be split up to avoid massive congestion at each end which would have rendered the motorway useless. The M45 is the equivalent road at the northern end of the 1959 section of M1.

With the widening of the M1 between the M25 and Luton, the M10 is due to be downgraded to an A road, with collector distributor lanes linking the M10 to the nearby junction 8 for Hemel Hempstead. The M10 will become part of the A414, though restrictions will still apply.

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Exit list

M10 Motorway
Westbound exits	Junction	Eastbound exits
The NORTH M1	M1 J7	Start of motorway
Start of motorway	1	Hatfield A414
		St Albans A5183
		Radlett A5183
		Bricket Wood A405