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Plan of Ringways 1, 2, 3 and 4. The London Ringways were a series of four ring roads planned in the 1960s to circle London at various distances from the city centre. They were part of a comprehensive scheme developed by the Greater London Council (GLC) to alleviate traffic congestion on the city's road system by providing high-speed motorway-standard roads within the capital, linking a series ...
The M16 motorway was the designation planned in the late 1960s and early 1970s for use on Ringway 3, a new motorway planned as part of the London Ringways Plan to run a circular route around London. Construction of the first section of the M16 began in 1973 between South Mimms and Potters Bar in Hertfordshire and opened in September 1975 with ...
Ringway 1 - The London Motorway box, comprising the North, East, South and West Cross Routes. Ringway 2 - Upgrade of North Circular Road and replacement for South Circular Road. Ringway 3 - A new road, the north section of which became part of the M25. Ringway 4 - A new road, the south section of which became part of the M25 and M26.
The A312 is an A road in England, running across west London from Hampton to Harrow.Its status varies from a local urban street to a major dual carriageway in Hayes.Part the road has been diverted to make way for Heathrow Airport, while another stretch was originally planned to be Ringway 3, one of four major ring motorways around London.
In 1975, following extensive opposition to some parts of Ringway 3 through Middlesex and South London, the transport minister John Gilbert announced that the north section of Ringway 3 already planned would be combined with the southern section of Ringway 4, forming a single orbital motorway to be known as the M25, and the M16 designation was ...
The M23 is a motorway in the United Kingdom, running from the south of Hooley in Surrey, where it splits from the A23, to Pease Pottage, south of Crawley in West Sussex where it rejoins the A23. The northern end of the motorway starts on what is effectively a 2-mile (3.2 km) spur north of junction 7 of the M25 motorway (junction 8
3.9 A48(M) A spur from the M4 to central Cardiff. Newport, Cardiff: 47,203 2.0 3.2 A57(M) Forms part of a ring road of Manchester. Also known as the Mancunian Way. Greater Manchester: 90,785 2.0 3.2 A58(M) Forms the western part of the Leeds inner ring road. West Yorkshire: 81,647 2.0 3.2 A627(M) A south-north motorway linking Rochdale to ...
A section of Ringway 3 (part of the proposed M16 motorway linking to the A2, which later formed part of the M25 motorway opened between 1974 and 1977. The Strood to Swanscombe dualling was constructed from 1 June 1964, being seven miles, with a contract of £4,436,869 given to A. Monk Ltd of Padgate , near Warrington .