Silver bullet 22 April 2025
The Silvertown Tunnel is finally open for business. One question remains: what’s it for?
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The trouble with the Thames 26 July 2018
The capital's planned new river crossing faces opposition at every turn. Why has it always been so hard to find new ways across the Thames in East London?
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East Cross Route
The strangest part of London's planned inner Motorway Box - not just because it's nothing like the other three sides, but also because it actually got built.
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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?
The road that made no sense
It was the UK's only single-carriageway motorway, and twenty years ago it ceased to exist. This is the story of the strange fascination it held, and of my place in history.
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.
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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.
