Chronology Maps

1989 1990 1991

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Completed Route Name Start End
M42 M5 Northern Links M5 J4A Catshill J1 Lickey End

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The long way round

When a road is closed, why isn't the diversion route just the quickest way past the closure?

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.

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Junction Three

The M621 has one junction where everything leaves the motorway and heads for the city, and a very bizarre junction it is too.