Paddy’s Rickle Bridge was a temporary terminus about two miles south east of Elvanfoot. Opened during August 1992 but exact date is uncertain.
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.
On Saturday 31 May something historic happened. The Heads of the Valleys Road was finally complete.
Our much-loved Opening Booklets section has two new publications for you to explore, and we’re making some overdue changes to make them easier to find and easier to read.
The Silvertown Tunnel is finally open for business. One question remains: what’s it for?
Officially the seventh most frightening thing on the road network - but actually it might just be the most efficient junction ever designed.
