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The Channel has traffic on both the UK–Europe and North Sea–Atlantic routes, and is the world's busiest seaway, with over 500 ships per day. [54] Following an accident in January 1971 and a series of disastrous collisions with wreckage in February, [ 55 ] the Dover TSS, [ 56 ] the world's first radar -controlled traffic separation scheme ...
Google Maps is available as a mobile app for the Android and iOS mobile operating systems. The first mobile version of Google Maps (then known as Google Local for Mobile) was launched in beta in November 2005 for mobile platforms supporting J2ME. [194] [195] [196] It was released as Google Maps for Mobile in 2006. [197]
The Channel Tunnel (French: Tunnel sous la Manche), sometimes referred to by the portmanteau Chunnel, [3] [4] is a 50.46-kilometre (31.35-mile) undersea railway tunnel, opened in 1994, that connects Folkestone (Kent, England) with Coquelles (Pas-de-Calais, France) beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover.
It is a north–south "reference road", running from Inverness, Scotland south through England and France to Algeciras, Spain. [1] Along most of its route between Paris and London, the road parallels the LGV Nord (as the French A1 autoroute) and High Speed 1 (as the English M20 motorway). Its length is 2,300 miles (3,700 km).
A route was fixed in 1978, with objections delaying the start of construction in 1982. [39] The southern section of what became the M25 through Surrey and Kent was first conceived to be an east–west road south of London to relieve the A25, and running parallel to it, with its eastern end following the route of what is now the M26. It was ...
Map of the EuroVelo 2 route EuroVelo 2 (EV2), named The Capitals Route , is a 5,050 km (3,140 mi) long EuroVelo long-distance cycling route running from Galway , Ireland to Moscow , Russia. This east-west route passes successively through seven countries – Republic of Ireland, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Belarus and ...
The European route E1 in the United Kingdom is a series of roads, part of the International E-road network running completely in the British region of Northern Ireland from Larne, by the capital Belfast to the Irish border at Newry. Eventually the route goes to the Republic of Ireland, Spain and Portugal. [1]
The Ridgeway approaching Whitehorse Hill from the west (Uffington Castle hillfort in distance on left) For at least 5,000 years travellers have used the Ridgeway. [4] The Ridgeway provided a reliable trading route to the Dorset coast and to the Wash in Norfolk. The high dry ground made travel easy and provided a measure of protection by giving ...