A601(M)
The end of the A601(M) 15 March 2023
One of the UK’s strangest little motorways has just been downgraded into oblivion.
Imperfectly Odd: the A601(M) 27 July 2020
In this first Imperfectly Odd outing, we take a trip to northern Lancashire to see one of the most peculiar motorways in the UK, and one with the strangest history.
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The forever bottleneck, part 2
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 forever bottleneck, part 1
The M4 into London was one of the UK's earliest and most ambitious motorway projects. It was bold, pioneering... and almost instantly regretted.
Hello, here's my ridiculous side project
An introduction to what I write, and why I write it, and where my strange new road sign simulator fits in to all this.
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Skelmersdale Link to M6
Bold plans and unrealised ideas for the New Town of Skelmersdale are set out with great ceremony and excitement in this book that marks the opening of a road that became the M58.
