This map shows the route of the Ring Road, not perfectly to scale but accurately enough to demonstrate the size of its junctions in comparison to the spaces between them. It also includes a couple of roads inside the ring to demonstrate just how tightly the road is drawn around the city centre.
An introduction to what I write, and why I write it, and where my strange new road sign simulator fits in to all this.
It was specially designed never to be noticed. And now it's disappearing, nobody has noticed its absence. It's London's own bespoke street light.
The wait is over! The full map of the Ringways, London’s unbuilt urban motorway network, is now online. Not even the system's planners had anything like this.
The M25 is either one of the greatest transport achievements of the 20th century or one of Britain's largest planning failures, depending on which way you look at it. This booklet takes the former view, celebrating the completion of the circuit in 1986.
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