Chronology Maps

1960 1961 1962

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Completed Route Name Start End Original number Other numbers
M4 Maidenhead Bypass J7 Huntercombe J8/9 Holyport
A404(M) Maidenhead Bypass M4 J8/9 Holyport J9B The Thicket M4 A423(M)
A1(M) Doncaster Bypass J34 Blyth J38 Red House

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Farewell GLC lights

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Silver bullet

The Silvertown Tunnel is finally open for business. One question remains: what’s it for?

Skid Risk, Accident, Fog

For the first time, we can share pictures of the pioneering experiment that lit up the Worcestershire countryside with enormous signs 61 years ago.

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The Magic Roundabout

Officially the seventh most frightening thing on the road network - but actually it might just be the most efficient junction ever designed.