Chronology Maps

1982 1983 1984

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Completed Route Name Start End
M25 Theydon - Cranham J27 Theydon J29 Cranham
M54 M6 - Telford M6 J10A Essington Priorslee
M27 Stoneham - Hedge End J5 Stoneham J7 Hedge End
M25 Wisley - Addlestone J10 Wisley J11 Chertsey
M65 Brierfield - Reedyford J12 Brierfield J13 Reedyford
M65 Clayton-le-Moors - Burnley J7 Hyndburn J10 Burnley Barracks

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Signs and sensibility

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 bridge under troubled bridges

A bridge that was ruined by another bridge, and a type of highway planning beyond any of the UK’s worst nightmares.

The monster seen from below

What might it have been like to stand in one spot and witness the arrival, and the uncertainty, of plans for an urban motorway in West London?

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M4 Chiswick-Langley

An early triumph of the motorway programme, the M4 between Chiswick and Langley linked Central London to Heathrow - then still known as London Airport - and was the start of a new motorway west.