Chronology Maps

1958 1959 1960

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Completed Route Name Start End Original number Downgraded
M4 Chiswick Flyover J1 Chiswick Great West Road A4
M1 London-Yorkshire Motorway J5 Berrygrove J18 Crick
M45 Dunchurch Spur M1 J17 Kilsby J1 Dunchurch
A414 St Albans Bypass J1 Park Street M1 J7 Breakspears M10

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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.

London, in a new light

It was specially designed never to be noticed. And now it's disappearing, nobody has noticed its absence. It's London's own bespoke street light.

The Ringways Map is here

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.

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M1-A1 Link Road

Those last few miles of the M1 east of Leeds were completed in 1999. It looks for the most part like a fairly average piece of road, but one of the project's engineers describes some of the challenges that were faced.