Smart Motorway gantry sign
A gantry structure spanning the motorway with electronic signals, blue signs showing the left lane exiting and three others continuing ahead, and the following text.
Exit destinations: A500 ; Stoke-on-Trent; Newcastle-; under-Lyme .
Forward destinations: The NORTH WEST, Liverpool; Manchester M6 .
Junction number: 15.
The A500 loops through Stoke-on-Trent and the surrounding towns, serving the whole of this busy built-up area, and rejoins the M6 at the next junction. To get to it you'll be swung around some sharp curves at this notorious junction.