The eastbound carriageway continued beyond North Street to York Road. The opening date is per The Gazette, but this is uncertain - local press mention it opening on an unspecified date in May 1970.
Road scheme and chronology data is courtesy SABRE (where much of it was gathered by member Ross Spur), with additional data from the UK Motorway Archive, the Scottish Roads Archive and the Northern Ireland Roads Site.
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.
Kent County Council is run by eurosceptic nationalists. So why are they putting EU flags on their road signs?
On Saturday 31 May something historic happened. The Heads of the Valleys Road was finally complete.
Opened in May 1965, the A1(M) Darlington Bypass was one of the UK's earliest motorways and made huge strides in linking the North East to the rest of England. Explore the pioneering spirit of its engineers in the book they produced to mark its opening.
