Smart Motorway gantry sign

A gantry structure spanning the motorway with electronic signals, blue signs showing an exit and the following text.

Exit destinations: A5120 Flitwick.

Forward destinations: The NORTH, Bedford, Milton Keynes M1.

Junction number: 12.

This junction has all its sliproads folded up on the north side of the A5120, with the south-facing slips looping round. It wasn't always this way - it was rebuilt in the late 2000s to get its sliproads further away from Toddington services, just behind us. Previously they were so close their sliproads almost touched and it was a cause of many accidents.

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