Chronology Maps

1995 1996 1997

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Completed Route Name Start End
M4 Second Severn Crossing J21 Awkley J23 Rogiet
M49 Avonmouth - Second Severn Crossing M5 J18 Lawrence Weston M4 J22 Pilning
M77 Dumbreck - Malletsheugh J1 Dumbreck J5 Malletsheugh

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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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M1 Architecture

The most unique motorway in Britain owes its identity to its fifties architecture. Much of it is in danger of being removed or irreperably altered. This page documents it in detail.