To help orient the lost traveller who is not yet familiar with this part of South London, here is the full glory of the Croydon Ring Road, such as it is, in stylised map format.
This diagram includes the various odd concessions to the Croydon Tramlink system and the very numerous places that traffic stops at traffic signals, despite the various flyovers and underpasses on the way.
The second part of the story, where we learn why exactly the M4 gets narrower on the final approach to Europe’s biggest city.
The M4 into London was one of the UK's earliest and most ambitious motorway projects. It was bold, pioneering... and almost instantly regretted.
An introduction to what I write, and why I write it, and where my strange new road sign simulator fits in to all this.
Even in the 1960s heyday of roadbuilding, some people said you could never build your way out of congestion. Glasgow had plans to prove them wrong.
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