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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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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North Cross Route

The route and the history of the North Cross Route, proposed in the 1960s as the northern side of London's innermost motorway ring road.