Thorne Road was a temporary terminus south of present junction 5.
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.
London’s notorious orbital motorway turns 40 years old today. Where did it come from - and why the number “25”?
When a road is closed, why isn't the diversion route just the quickest way past the closure?
The one great attempt to make London’s streets logical - and how one retired chauffeur’s favourite routes changed the way you get around the capital.
A first step towards emissions-based road pricing, a pointless measure to enforce something that's happening anyway, or another leap forward in traffic planning from the people who created the Congestion Charge? It's hard to say.
