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Description
The creation of the UK's motorway network in the second half of the 20th century facilitated a dramatic improvement in the mobility of people and goods and contributed greatly to the prosperity we enjoy today. The Motorway Achievement reviews many aspects related to the planning, design and construction of the 2000 miles of motorway network which connect the key cities and locations across the country.
Volume three of the series presents detailed and comprehensive accounts of the construction of the motorway network, associated structures, and who was involved. Each of the ten chapters focuses on a specific region of the UK, providing a background history of the area and its roads, as well as the social, political and economic factors which played a part in the various decision-making processes. Illustrated with full-colour maps and photographs throughout, The Motorway Achievement: Building the network tells a vivid story of massive human endeavour, which ranks among the greatest civil engineering feats of 20th century Britain.
Also available in this series:
The Motorway Achievement, Volume 1: Visualisation of the British motorway system
The Motorway Achievement, Volume 2: Frontiers of knowledge and practice
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PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
EASTERN ENGLAND
Eastern Region
M1 London - Yorkshire Motorway, M10 and M45
M1/M45 the London - Birmingham Motorway: Luton to Crick to Dunchurch
A(1)M, Part of the A1 Strategic North-South Link
M4 Slough-Maidenhead Bypass, Buckinghamshire section between Junctions 5 and 7
M11 London-Cambridge Motorway
A12 Hackney to M11 Link Road
A406 North Circular Road (formerly M15) South Woodford to Barking Relief Road
A14 between the M1 junction 19 with the M6 (North-East of Rugby) and Felixstowe
M25 London Orbital Motorway, Northern Section
M40 London-Oxford-Birmingham Motorway, length in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire
A41(M) Watford-Tring Motorway
ENGLAND - LONDON
London's Motorways - The M25
Background and origins
The Highways Development Survey 1937
The Greater London Plan 1944
The London Traffic Survey and the Greater London Development Plan
The Birth of the M25
ENGLAND - MIDLANDS
The Midlands
M1 Crick to Thurcroft & M18 Thurcroft to Doncaster Bypass
M5/M50 in Worcestershire & Herefordshire
M5 Strensham to Lydiate Ash
M5 widening in Worcestershire
M50 Ross Spur Motorway & Ross bypass
M6 Birmingham-Preston Motorway (A449 Dunston to Cheshire boundary)
Midland links motorways: M5/M6
M42 Birmingham-Nottingham Motorway, M5 to Curdworth
M42 Birmingham-Nottingham Motorway, Curdworth to Appleby Magna
M69 Coventry-Leicester Motorway
M54 Telford Motorway
M40 Oxford to Birmingham Motorway (M42 Umberslade to Banbury)
An orbital motorway for the West Midlands, Birmingham Northern Relief Road
Birmingham Western Orbital Route (BWOR)
M6 Toll (formerly BNRR) - Britain's first toll motorway
A38(M) Aston Expressway, Birmingham
Midland's motorways - opening dates
ENGLAND - NORTH EASTERN
History
A1(M), first motorway in the north east
A1, improvement of the great north road, in the West Riding
A1, in the North Riding of Yorkshire
A1, in County Durham
A1 in Northumberland
A1, in South Yorkshire Metropolitan County Council
A1, in West Yorkshire Metropolitan County Council and Dopet
Motorways in the West Riding of Yorkshire
M1: the construction contracts
M1 Motorway Barlborough to Thurcroft and M18 Motorway Thurcroft to Wadworth
M62, the Lancashire-Yorkshire Motorway
Urban motorways
Motorways in Humberside (formerly Lindsey and Lincolnshire counties)
The Humber Bridge
A1 improvement schemes carried out in the mid 1980s to early 1990s
A1, up-grading of trunk road to motorway status (A1M)) post 1990
The M1-A1 link
ENGLAND - NORTH WESTERN
Characteristics of the region
The origins of the motorways of the region
M6 the North-South Motorway
M60 Manchester Outer Ring Road
M61 Manchester-Preston Motorway
M62 Lanashire-Yorkshire Motorway
A627(M) Rochdale-Oldham Motorway
A57(M) The Manunian Way
M602 Eccles-Salford Motorway
M57 Liverpool Outer Ring Road
M55 Preston Northern Bypass
M66 Bury Easterly Bypass, A56 extension to M65
M58 the Aintree-Skelmersdale Motorway
M67 Hyde Bypass and Denton Relief Road
M53 Mid-Wirral Motorway and the A55 extension to the Welsh border
M56 North Cheshire East-West Motorway
M65 Calder Valley Motorway
The benefits to the region
The achievement
ENGLAND - SOUTH EASTERN
Building the network in the South East region
M2, Medway Towns Bypass
The Blackwall Crossings and the A102(M)
M20, London to Folkestone Motorway
M23, London to Pease Pottage including Gatwick's spur
M3 London to Southampton Motorway
M4, London to South Wales Motorway
A329(M), A404(M) - High capacity links for Bracknell new town to growing towns in the Kennet and Thames basins
M27-M271-M275 - South Coast Motorway redirected; and A3(M) - Horndean to Bedhampton
London's Orbital M25 and M26 Motorways
The Dartford Crossings (A282)
M25 west side and other motorway widening schemes
The region's current and future schemes
ENGLAND - SOUTH WESTERN
Motorway achievement in Southwest England
A synopsis of the sequence of activities required to build a motorway
First Severn Bridge crossing
M4 Motorway construction
M5 Motorway construction
The second Severn crossing
NORTHERN IRELAND
Conception and early planning
Construction of the M1(NI)
Planning in the 1960s
Construction of M2(NI), M22(NI) and M5(NI)
Proposed extensions
Belfast
Local Government reorganisation
Works in Belfast
Personnel and conclusions
SCOTLAND
Building the motorway network in Scotland
Trunk road policies and programmes in Scotland
Scotland's urban motorway network
Scotland's interurban motorway network
New roads by new means
WALES
Aims, organisation and management
An overview
M4 design and construction
A55 North Wales coast road
GLOSSARY
INDEX
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