Chronology Maps

1978 1979 1980

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Completed Route Name Start End Original number
A1(M) South Mimms - Hatfield J1 Bignell’s Corner J2 Roestock A1
M8 Monkland Motorway Stage 2A J11 Stepps Road J12 Cumbernauld Road
M180 Woodhouse - Midmoor J2 Woodhouse J3 Midmoor
M25 Chevening - Godstone J5 Chevening J6 Godstone
M11 Bishop's Stortford - Stump Cross J8 Birchanger Green J9 Stump Cross
A3(M) Horndean and Waterlooville Bypass J1 Horndean J5 Broadmarsh

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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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M1 under construction

Pictures taken as the first section of the M1 was being built in 1958-9, with all its unique architecture still under construction.