Chronology Maps

1988 1989 1990

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Completed Route Name Start End Original number
M60 Portwood - Denton J24 Denton J27 Portwood M63, M66
M40 Longbridge - Umberslade J15 Longbridge M42 J3A Umberslade

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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.

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Queensway Tunnel

The engineering marvel of its day, much altered and maligned ever since: this is the original Mersey Tunnel in all its glory.