MT 106/118 - Revision history

Chris5156: Add link to MT 95/84

2011-06-25T15:25:27Z

Add link to MT 95/84

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	==Contents of note==		==Contents of note==
	* Local protest group's proposal, which is actually quite good, and was seriously considered by the Ministry.		* Local protest group's proposal, which is actually quite good, and was seriously considered by the Ministry.

			==Links to related files==
			:'''[[MT 95/84]]''' Ring road 'D' (1949-1962)

	==People with camera copies==		==People with camera copies==
	[[User:Chris5156\|Chris Marshall]] has a partial copy.		[[User:Chris5156\|Chris Marshall]] has a partial copy.

Chris5156: Add category R3

2011-03-10T19:11:17Z

Add category R3

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	[[Category: Ringways]][[Category:~~Subseries MT 106~~]]		[[Category:Subseries MT 106]][[Category: Ringways]][[Category:Ringway 3]]
	{{Header		{{Header
	\| title = Highway projects: Ringway 3(M16); Yeading to South Mimms		\| title = Highway projects: Ringway 3(M16); Yeading to South Mimms

Chris5156 at 22:57, 1 February 2011

2011-02-01T22:57:46Z

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	What followed was a messy business where Harold Watkinson, the Transport and Civil Aviation Minister at the time of this débacle, had little choice but to reroute the proposed D-Ring onto existing roads to get around the blockage, and in doing so inflicted a great deal of planning blight on the poor souls who lived on those now-to-be-widened roads.		What followed was a messy business where Harold Watkinson, the Transport and Civil Aviation Minister at the time of this débacle, had little choice but to reroute the proposed D-Ring onto existing roads to get around the blockage, and in doing so inflicted a great deal of planning blight on the poor souls who lived on those now-to-be-widened roads.

	Eventually the GLC came up with their own plan, published in 1964, for the curvy route through parkland from Northolt to Scratchwood. This was superceded a few years later with two competing plans, one Ministry and one GLC, for a proper motorway running west of, or through, Ruislip and Oxhey instead.

	==Contents of note==		==Contents of note==
	* GLC press release and map showing the wibbly wobbly route through Stanmore to Scratchwood.
	* Local protest group's proposal, which is actually quite good, and was seriously considered by the Ministry.		* Local protest group's proposal, which is actually quite good, and was seriously considered by the Ministry.

	==People with camera copies==		==People with camera copies==
	[[User:Chris5156\|Chris Marshall]] has a partial copy.		[[User:Chris5156\|Chris Marshall]] has a partial copy.

Chris5156: New page: Category: RingwaysCategory:Subseries MT 106 {{Header | title = Highway projects: Ringway 3(M16); Yeading to South Mimms | daterange = 1959-1964 | nacatref = 2266745 | series ...

2011-02-01T22:56:44Z

New page: Category: Ringways Category:Subseries MT 106 {{Header | title = Highway projects: Ringway 3(M16); Yeading to South Mimms | daterange = 1959-1964 | nacatref = 2266745 | series ...

New page

[[Category: Ringways]][[Category:Subseries MT 106]]
{{Header
| title = Highway projects: Ringway 3(M16); Yeading to South Mimms
| daterange = 1959-1964
| nacatref = 2266745
| series = MT
| subseries = 106
}}

==Context==
Ringway 3 - which, for most of this file, is referred to as the good old fashioned D-Ring - was a tricky business in north west London. This file deals with it before it became a motorway and most of it consists of correspondence trying to find a solution to the problem. It doesn't, therefore, tell us much about Ringway 3 itself because none of the line of that route is here. It's too early for that. It does tell us why there was so much trouble in this part of the world, though, which is just as good.

It seems that the line of the D-Ring was protected from the 1930s until the 1950s, when the County scheme was transferred to the Ministry and the MoT continued protecting the line of the road. Then the Ministry for Housing went and made a mess by unilaterally building a big new housing estate on top of the line somewhere near Northolt, screwing up the MoT's plans good and proper.

What followed was a messy business where Harold Watkinson, the Transport and Civil Aviation Minister at the time of this débacle, had little choice but to reroute the proposed D-Ring onto existing roads to get around the blockage, and in doing so inflicted a great deal of planning blight on the poor souls who lived on those now-to-be-widened roads.

Eventually the GLC came up with their own plan, published in 1964, for the curvy route through parkland from Northolt to Scratchwood. This was superceded a few years later with two competing plans, one Ministry and one GLC, for a proper motorway running west of, or through, Ruislip and Oxhey instead.

==Contents of note==
* GLC press release and map showing the wibbly wobbly route through Stanmore to Scratchwood.
* Local protest group's proposal, which is actually quite good, and was seriously considered by the Ministry.

==People with camera copies==
[[User:Chris5156|Chris Marshall]] has a partial copy.