Chronology Maps

2016 2017 2018

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Completed Route Name Start End
M8 Newhouse - Baillieston J6 Newhouse J8 Baillieston
A8(M) Baillieston - Swinton M8 J8 Baillieston Swinton
M90 Queensferry Crossing J1A Queensferry J1C Admiralty
A1(M) Leeming - Catterick J51 Leeming Bar J52 Catterick Central

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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 under construction

Pictures taken as the first section of the M1 was being built in 1958-9, with all its unique architecture still under construction.