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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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?
