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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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.

Red, white and blue

Kent County Council is run by eurosceptic nationalists. So why are they putting EU flags on their road signs?

The sunlit uplands

On Saturday 31 May something historic happened. The Heads of the Valleys Road was finally complete.

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Preston Bypass

The very first motorway was eight miles of relief for the Lancashire town of Preston. It goes without saying that there's an interesting story to be told about it.