LANCASHIRE was to get the North's first four lane motorway in a £50 million to widen the M6, including two new bridges over the River Ribble at Samlesbury.
The Ministry of Transport said the six-mile scheme from junction 30 at Bamber Bridge to junction 32 at Broughton would start in 1992 and be completed by 1995.
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