M1
London-Yorkshire Motorway
London to Hook Moor
Motorway Database
Detailed information on every motorway and A-road expressway in mainland Britain - its length and route, its history, construction dates, and of course a detailed strip-map of the whole road. You can also find Chronology Maps showing the development of the motorway network over time, and you can search more than 2,000 individual junctions and other features of the road network.
M2 & A2
Medway Towns Bypass
London to Lydden
M3
London to Southampton
M4
London to Pont Abraham
M5
Birmingham to Exeter
M6
Rugby to Gretna
M6 Toll
Midland Expressway
Coleshill to Cannock
M8
Edinburgh to Greenock
M9
Edinburgh to Dunblane
What's new
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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Mickleham Bends
Once it was one of the UK's most dangerous roads — just what is so special about a bit of dual carriageway in Surrey?
