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West Cross Route 11 October 2017

Desperately-needed but never built, this was one of the only London urban motorway plans that were ever progressed to the construction stage.

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What goes up must come down

Nothing lasts forever. This week, after 43 years, the "temporary" Army and Navy flyover has been given its marching orders.

Local signs for local people

Blue-bordered “local” direction signs are rapidly disappearing from our roads. They had their problems - but also an awful lot of fans.

The life and death of Ringway 3

The next pages in our series on London's unbuilt motorways are now online, charting the strange story of Ringway 3.

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From War to Worboys

The tale of how British traffic signing developed between the Second World War and the mid-1960s, bringing us from a system designed at the turn of the century to the signs we still use today.