A421

A421

St Neots to Milton Keynes

Since 1996, three sections of a new A421 expressway have been built, progressively completing a fast route that serves to link Cambridge to Milton Keynes and Bedford to the wider world.

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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.

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.

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