Chronology Maps

1981 1982 1983

Click a section name to see full details and a map.

Completed Route Name Start End Original number
M20 Ashford Bypass J9 Drovers J10 Lacton
M60 Stockport East-West Bypass J27 Portwood J2 Roscoe’s Roundabout M63
M53 Stoak - Hoole J11 Stoak J12 Hoole
M25 Staines - Poyle J13 Staines J14 Poyle
M602 Eccles - Salford J2 Gilda Brook J3 Regent Road
M25 Cranham - Purfleet J29 Cranham J31 Purfleet

In this section

What's new

The forever bottleneck, part 2

The second part of the story, where we learn why exactly the M4 gets narrower on the final approach to Europe’s biggest city.

The forever bottleneck, part 1

The M4 into London was one of the UK's earliest and most ambitious motorway projects. It was bold, pioneering... and almost instantly regretted.

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.

Share this page

Have you seen...

Exhibition Road

The UK's biggest "shared space" is a phenomenally expensive experiment in West London. How does it work?