Updates

Here are all the posts made on the blog and the front page describing updates and changes to other parts of the website. 

They are arranged with the latest updates at the top. 

The story of London's motorways 20 February 2018

The history of London's abandoned motorway plans, from the earliest ideas of the 20th Century to the political fights and protests of the 1970s, is back on CBRD.

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The Ross Motorway 27 January 2018

The commemorative book published to mark the opening of the M50 is now available on CBRD.

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The Ringways are back 24 December 2017

The story of the most astonishing and destructive thing never to happen to London is back on CBRD, after a six month absence.

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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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M4 Chiswick-Langley

An early triumph of the motorway programme, the M4 between Chiswick and Langley linked Central London to Heathrow - then still known as London Airport - and was the start of a new motorway west.