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Revision as of 14:39, 8 February 2011
This is an experiment into how references might be collated and published for the Ringways articles. The references will not be placed on the pages themselves, to avoid it becoming too academic and even less readable, but instead will be collated here, with each key point in the text married up with its source.
- New Road opened ca. 1756
- Royal Commission on London Traffic
- SJ 16
- Rees Jeffreys' ring road proposal
- SJ 16 has outline only
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- Traffic Board for London
- SJ 16
- Arterial Routes built by 1930s
- Highway Development Survey 1937
- SJ 16 has outline
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- Proposal to reverse roles of A and B rings
- MT 95/86 discusses little else
- Land for road construction not protected
- M1 to terminate near Marble Arch
- MT 112/67 & SJ 15
- Motorway Box replaces A- and B-rings
- Eastern side was pre-existing road proposal
- LCC plans and omission of Motorway Box
- West Cross Route planning status in 1962
- West Cross Route: Interim Report on Stage I (1962) - document is dated April 1962
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- GLC purpose included planning of road network
- Consultants brought in to assist GLC with planning
- Letter from GLC to MoT (London Highways Division), 3 September 1968, held at MT 106/299
- GLC unhappy with use of Abercrombie terminology
- GLC's overall plan and timescale
- HLG 159/572 has full timescale, and costs the scheme at £1.7bn
- Evening Standard report with incorrect cost and rehousing numbers
- Evening Standard 26/05/66, "That motorway box 'could cost £3000m'"
- Camden suggesting higher capacity on North Cross Route
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- Correspondence between Ministry and GLC
- T 319/1842 has memos in 1969 asking about "killing the whole project"
- Estimate of cost at 1970
- T 319/1842 has the GLC estimating £1,700m
- GLDP as biggest inquiry in British history
- Protest groups set up in South West London
- The Borough News 16/10/70; p. 16 "Putney Motorway Action Group formed"
- Further items to be added to this list.
- Grove Park Group's analysis and report
- Coalition of South London councils
- Clapham Observer 11/02/72; "Councils combine to fight M-way 'madness'"
- Barnes Motorway Action Group newspaper spread
- Putney and Roehampton Herald 02/07/70 (held at Wandsworth Local History Service)
- Layfield Report decision on Ringway 1
- HLG 159/626 has the full decision on transport
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- DoE memo to Treasury recommending Layfield's proposals
- T 319/2655
- Government policy on Motorway Box
- T 319/2655
- Leaks in Sunday Times and Private Eye
- T 319/2655 has details - specific editions are:
- Sunday Times 11/02/1973; "The Motor Car Wins its Biggest Victory"
- Sunday Times 18/02/1973; "Full Cabinet approves London's Motorway Box"
- Private Eye 23/02/1973
- Treasury memo puts Ringway 1 "out of the question"
- T 319/2655 includes memo dated 20/02/1973 from Diana Seammen to Mr Howard, stating "the Inner Motorway Box will never be implemented"
- MoT merges R3 and R4 to form M25
- GLC cancels R2 plans in favour of M25
- A102(M), A40(M), M41 open to traffic by 1973
- Motorways within Greater London downgraded
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- Encircling 60 square miles
- R1 as 'minimum solution'
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- Serve as local distributor and long-distance bypass
- Estimated 36,000 people rehomed
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- Route, Willesden Junction - Hackney Wick
- T 319/1842 contains the standard GLC route map for Ringway 1
- Route published in 1966
- MT 106/437 for engineering plans, route study and publicity
- Demolition of Sigmund Freud's house
- Mentioned in ACC/3499/EH/08/04/019
- Link roads from Willesden to Harlesden, M40 and M4
- MT 106/437
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- British Rail's objection to motorway over Camden Goods Yard
- PNLR terminus on Ringway 1
- MT 106/437 in plan sheets
- M11 to Angel link alternative route on line of A10
- MT 106/437 in study on alternative links to York Way and Hackney Wick
- Barbara Castle newspaper controversy
- MT 106/437
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- Route, Hackney Wick to Kidbrooke
- Road is as-built before 1973
- T 319/1842 contains the standard GLC route map for Ringway 1
- Existing proposal by London County Council
- GLC/TD/C/P/01 held at London Metropolitan Archives
- Sections of road previously under motorway restrictions
- Sections of East Cross Route designated A106
- OS Landranger map (details to follow)
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- A13 interchange as temporary measure
- Third Blackwall Tunnel bore planned
- A-Z map (details to follow)
- Kidbrooke Interchange (A2/A20/Ringway 1)
- HLG 159/1257
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- Route, Kidbrooke - Clapham Junction
- T 319/1842 contains the standard GLC route map for Ringway 1
- Kidbrooke Interchange (A2/A20/Ringway 1)
- HLG 159/1257
- Blackheath tunnel and alternative line proposals
- HLG 159/1257 for proposals made by LB Greenwich and Buchanan
- MT 106/299 for report in South London Press, 09/04/1971, including trial bore holes made by GLC
- New Cross Spur interchange
- Split carriageways at Denmark Hill
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- Brixton section, and redevelopment of Brixton
- LBL/BDD/1/16/1, LBL/BDD/1/16/2 and LBL/BDD/2/4 for various incarnations of the Brixton Town Centre Redevelopment Plan within the Ringway timeframe
- Barrier Block (Southwyck House), Brixton
- Urban 75 have a well-researched report from original files at Lambeth Archives, verified by the site's authors
- Engineer's Reports
- MT 106/299 for details on commissioning and funding
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- Route, Clapham Junction - Holland Park
- MT 106/188
- West Cross Route: Interim Report on Stage I (1962)
- Route, Holland Park - Westway
- This road is as-built before 1973.
- T 319/1842 confirms the whole route.
- Route, Westway - Willesden Junction
- MT 106/437
- Elevated motorway with three or four lanes
- MT 106/188
- Interchange at Chelsea, and alternative plans
- MT 106/188 for complex looped interchange
- GLC/TD/DP/LDS/02/098 for east-facing directional interchange
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- Designs for A4 interchange
- MT 106/188 for stacked roundabout
- GLC/TD/DP/LDS/02/098 for west-facing directional interchange
- Dual carriageway proposal forking to two bridges
- Western Environmental Improvement Route: leaflet published by the Department of Transport, 1989
- Western Environmental Improvement Route
- West London Assessment Study, Stage II. Viewed at Richmond Archives. Detailed page to follow.
- Mention of proposal to link Chelsea and Victoria Embankments
- LA 02 mentions this plan - detailed diagrams and documents yet to be located
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- Route, Camden Road - Euston Road
- MT 106/437 includes full engineering diagrams
- HLG 159/2457
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- Oval Road cantilever over bypass
- MT 106/437 for written description of the route
- Artist's impression
- MT 106/437 for GLC publicity on 'new roads in N and E London'
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- Route, Clapham - Brixton via Tulse Hill
- T 319/1842 has the standard GLC map of Ringway 1, including the Balham Loop
- Publication of route in 1966
- Check this - sure there is a written summary of whole of R1 including BL, probably dated
- Withdrawal of route in 1967
- Report in Wandsworth Boro' News, 21/01/1967
- MT 106/291 has GLC memo dated 23/01/1967
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- Map with Balham Loop crossed out
- MT 106/291 has map with Balham Loop and relevant M23 section marked as "Route no longer safeguarded"
- Quote from Southern Railway poster
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- Objector arguing that R2 would only encourage cars
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- Objector from Strand-on-the-Green association
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- Route, Hanger Lane - Woodford
- This road was pre-existing
- HLG 159/1024 indicates that the existing North Circular was to be upgraded
- North Circular as Trunk Route
- MT 106/151 indicates that, in 1961, the North Circular was the responsibility of the MoT
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- Ministry of Transport proposals, 1961
- MT 106/151 for the report itself
- MT 106/152 for accompanying plans and diagrams
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- Route, Woodford - A13
- GLC/TD/PM/CDO/07 shows new alignment that matches present
- Route, A13 - Thamesmead
- Route, Thamesmead - A2
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- MT 106/291 has descriptive outline
- A406 previously terminated at Gants Hill
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- Proposed designation M15
- Roads in England, 1973/74 for section listed as A406 - A13
- SJ 25 includes reference to M15 through the R2/M11/M12 junction
- 1960s preference for tunnel
- MT 106/291 describes a dual four-lane tunnel
- Controversy surrounding Oxleas Wood
- Resurrection of river crossing by Ken Livingstone
- Referenced in The Guardian, 23 January 2002
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- Route, A2 - A23
- MT 106/291 has descriptive outline
- Route, A23 - A24
- MT 106/291 has descriptive outline
- Route, A24 - Wandsworth
- MT 106/291 has descriptive outline
- Junctions at Grove Park
- HLG 159/959
- Double-deck and interchange at Elmer's End
- HLG 159/2316
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- Layout of A21 interchange
- Lewisham Mercury, 04/12/1969; "Here's the Secret M-Way Map and all the Details"
- M23 terminal interchange
- GLC proposal to roof over sections
- GLC consider R2 high priority
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- Route, Wandsworth - M4
- MT 106/291 has descriptive outline
- Route, M4 - A40
- MT 106/151
- Lack of connection between motorway and relief roads in Wandsworth
- MT 118/379 has plans of the local road network improvements with the motorway's location indicated, and does not show any connection to the motorway.
- Artist's impression of motorway at Barnes Bridge
- Uncredited press cutting at Richmond Local History Service. From the context it is likely to be from the Richmond Herald, 1966.
- Four-level stack with A316
- HLG 159/2274
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- Chiswick triangle, noise and demolition
- HLG 159/936
- HLG 159/2274
- HLG 159/2342
- Chiswick Flyover interchange
- HLG 159/2274
- Barnes Motorway Action Group
- West London Assessment Study
- West London Assessment Study, Stage II. Viewed at Richmond Archives. Detailed page to follow.
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- Abercrombie's D-Ring as precursor
- MT 106/413 includes written confirmation that several sections used D-Ring protected lines
- MT 95/85 includes plans of the D-ring at locations that match known routings of Ringway 3
- GLC discussing only three ring roads
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- Ringway 3 as route for long-distance traffic
- MT 106/413, related to 'D-Ring' being constructed entirely as motorway in 1966
- Ministry plan for Outer Orbital motorway M45
- MT 112/67
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- Route, M1 - Bignell's Corner
- This line is a best-guess and no source documents whatsoever have been found for an official line between Bushey and Bignell's Corner. However, there are some Geographia maps with a potential route on them.
- M31 Consultants' Report has outline of route, although it does not quite reach Bignell's Corner
- Route, Bignell's Corner - Potter's Bar
- As built before 1973
- Route, Potter's Bar - A12
- As planned before 1973
- Unbuilt junction at A11
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- Use of M16 designation before opening
- Use of temporary A1178 number
- Incorporated into full-circle M25
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- Route, A12 - A20
- AT 56/98 confirms that what is now M25 between M11 and Dartford was programmed as Ringway 3/M16
- Route, A20 - Addington
- MT 120/169 has outline route
- Route, Addington - Thames
- MT 120/169 includes outline route
- Alternative route, Addington - Chessington
- Consultants still investigating routes in 1971
- MT 120/272 indicates possible routes between M4 and A20 under investigation, in memo dated September 1971
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- Newspaper report concerning "final route"
- HLG 159/1318 indicates a plan was published in Sutton and Cheam Advertiser, 23/07/1970, but so far we have been unable to track down that particular edition of this newspaper
- No final route ever selected
- MT 120/272 and HLG 159/321 both suggest the route was with consultants in 1971, and the final report of their findings was not due
- Engineering standards
- MT 120/272 indicates urban dual-4 alignment changes to rural dual-3 at a grid line on the plans in the absence of detailed study on where the change should occur
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- Route, Thames - M3
- Route, M3 - M4 - Yeading
- Route, options at Yeading
- Route, MoT option Yeading - South Oxhey
- Check (same as GLC route)
- Route, GLC option Yeading - South Oxhey
- Check (same as MoT route)
- MT 106/291 for 1964 route through Stanmore and Harrow to M1 junction 3
- Ministry line v GLC line
- Settled in favour of Ministry line before GDLP inquiry, The Times, 13-03-71
- HLG 159/321 has report comparing the two options
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- R3 connecting to M3 junction 1
- R3 connecting to M3 at new junction at Upper Halliford (inc. reserved land and property dispute)
- MT 120/169
- Cost comparison of Ministry and GLC route options
- HLG 159/321, including GLC argument that their line was "more accessible"
- Previous plans for D-Ring and to link M1 and Heathrow by dual carriageway
- MT 106/291
- Memo indicating urban or rural motorway standard
- MT 106/413
- File suggesting route number M16 between A4020 and M1
- MT 106/118
- Hansard, 07-11-72
- Ringway 3 still at least partially in roads programme in 1977
- Hansard, 05-04-77
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- Abercrombie plan for outer parkways
- Greater London Plan (1944)
- Route, Navestock - M11
- MT 120/169 has outline maps
- Route, M11 - Hatfield
- MT 120/169 has outline maps
- Route, Hatfield Bypass
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- Route, Hatfield - Watford
- MT 120/169 has text description
- Proposed as all-purpose road
- MT 120/169 implies very strongly
- A1170 Dinant Link Road as R4
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- Route, Hunton Bridge - Maple Cross
- M31 Consultants' Report has outline of route
- Route, Maple Cross - Staines
- M31 Consultants' Report has outline of route
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- Route, Staines - River Thames
- M31 Consultants' Report has outline of route
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- Route, River Thames - A3
- Shown in M31 Consultants' Report
- Route, A3 - M23
- Route, M23 - M20
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- Link south-west of M25/M3 interchange
- May be part of non-preferred M31 Red Route. Dotted line shown in M31 Consultants' Report
- Stacked roundabout interchange at A21
- MT 121/57 has full diagrams, including proposed MSA.
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- Route, St Albans - A406
- GLC/TD/C/P/02 confirms this was to be incorporated as-is
- Route, A406 - Kilburn
- MT 106/437 has full engineering diagrams for this section
- M1 final section opened 1977
- UK Motorway Archive confirms dates.
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- A406 flyover pre-existing at 1977
- 1970s and 80s proposals for extension to WEIR
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PNLR (Possible North London Radial)
- Route, Harlow - A406
- Route, A406 - Hackney Wick
- GLC/TD/PM/CDO/07 has multiple route options
- Route, Hackney Wick - Angel
- Route, alternative Lee Valley line
- GLC/TD/PM/CDO/07 shows this line out to Harlow
- Restricted access interchange with R3
- T 319/2655 has diagram
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- Layout of interchange with M12 and R2
- SJ 25
- Hackney Wick interchange
- GLC/TD/PM/CDO/07 has various allusions to layout
- Eastern Avenue Extension
- A12 not on proposed line of M11
- GLC/TD/PM/CDO/07 has multiple options, none of which match A12
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- Route, Woodford - Brentwood
- AT 56/98 & MT 106/280
- Route, Brentwood - Maplin Sands alternative
- AT 56/98
- Route, Brentwood - Chelmsford alternative
- Trunk Roads, England into the 1990s
- Terminal interchange at Woodford
- SJ 25
- Return to Woodford - Brentwood routing after cancellation of Maplin Airport
- Roads in England 1981
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- Havering-atte-Bower service area
- MT 106/280
- Gallows Corner spur and temporary flyover
- MT 106/280
- Noak Hill spur
- Maplin Airport route with parallel railway
- AT 56/98
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- Route, Maplin Sands - Blackwall (via Rayleigh)
- AT 56/98
- Route, Maplin Sands - Blackwall (via Thames Estuary)
- AT 56/98
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- Suggestion of plans for a barrage near Southend
- AT 56/98 mentions local proposals for a road on the coast side of Leigh-on-Sea which met with local disapproval.
- Proposal for two motorways to Maplin Airport
- AT 56/98
- HLG 159/462
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- Route, Hemel Hempstead - Hunton Bridge
- Indicated as "motorway projected" on Ordnance Survey Landranger sheet 166 revision A* published April 1975
- Route, Hunton Bridge - M1
- Existence of route, Roads in England 1971/72
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- Tring Bypass completed in 1970s
- Listed as under construction, Roads in England 1973/74
- Hunton Bridge as terminus of M25
- MT 138/44
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- Route, High Wycombe - Denham
- GLC/TD/C/P/02 shows M40 route was built as planned
- Route, Denham - Shepherd's Bush
- GLC/TD/C/P/02 indicates on-line improvement was expected throughout
- Route, Shepherd's Bush - Marylebone
- R4 to connect at Denham (M40 junction 1)
- MT 121/57 & MT 106/291 show R4 approaching M40 from south and terminating
- HLG 159/479 shows R4 via M40 continuing towards Maple Cross
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- R4 to connect at present M25 junction
- Sliproads at Denham designed with provision for spur
- Denham Spur emails
- Spur to R1 at Gypsy Corner
- MT 106/437 has engineering plans
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- Route, Slough - Chiswick
- GLC/TD/C/P/02 has this route incorporated as-is
- Route, Chiswick - Earl's Court
- Possibility of widening Chiswick elevated section
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- Limited-access proposal for Chiswick Roundabout
- HLG 159/2274
- Free-flow proposal for Chiswick Roundabout
- Confusion over status Chiswick - Earl's Court
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- Route, Staines - Sunbury
- GLC/TD/C/P/02 shows the route of M3 was to be incorporated as-is
- Route, Sunbury - Richmond
- GLC/TD/C/P/02 has a primary route planned on the current line of A316 Country Way
- Route, Richmond Bypass
- GLC/TD/C/P/02 indicates an online improvement of A316 at Richmond, dated 1965
- Newspaper reports at Richmond Local History Service also dated 1965 show Richmond Council approved a bypass to the north of the town
- Route, Richmond - Chiswick
- GLC/TD/C/P/02 indicates an on-line upgrade of A316 from Manor Circus to Hogarth Roundabout
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- Local authority plans for Richmond bypass
- Local authority change and rejection of bypass
- GLC suggesting M3 to Chiswick until 1973
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- Route, Esher Bypass
- Route, Kingston Bypass
- Route, Robin Hood Gate - Wandsworth
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- Abercrombie considered A3 unsuitable as Parkway
- Esher Bypass proposed as motorway
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- Route, Redhill - Hooley
- Route, Hooley - Streatham Vale
- Route, Streatham Vale - Tooting Bec Common
- London - Brighton Motorways planned 1906 and 1924
- Proposed London - Crawley Motorway Consultant's Report, March 1964
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- Deletion of Streatham Vale - Tooting Bec Common section
- Considered for number M2
- MT 112/67
- Terminus on "Tooting Bec - Tulse Hill Link"
- Proposed London - Crawley Motorway Consultant's Report, March 1964
- Plan formally cancelled in 1995
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SCRPDR (South Cross Route to Parkway D Radial)
- Route, Brixton - Elmer's End
- Proposed London - Crawley Motorway Consultant's Report, March 1964
- T 319/1842 includes this section in the GLC map of Ringway 1
- Route, Elmer's End - Addington
- Proposed London - Crawley Motorway Consultant's Report, March 1964
- Descended from Abercrombie's Parkway E
- Parkway E name used in MT 106/413 and HLG 159/1373
- Name 'South Cross Route to Parkway D Radial'
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- Name 'Hastings Radial'
- Proposed London - Crawley Motorway Consultant's Report, March 1964
- Described as going 'to Hastings' in GLC/TD/DP/LDS/02/097
- Double-deck interchange with R2
- HLG 159/2316
- Line protected by GLC in 1964
- Lambeth Council lobby for removal of protection
- HLG 159/1373
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- Route, Kidbrooke - A208
- HLG 159/1257
- HLG 159/2508
- Route, A208 - Swanley
- Route, Swanley - Wrotham
- Route, Swanley - Wrotham southern alternative
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- Junction layouts, Kidbrooke - A208
- HLG 159/1257 has the whole 'Eltham box' including several alternative arrangements
- Road in deep cutting next to A20
- HLG 159/2508 shows cross-section in diagram
- Use of number A20(M)
- HLG 159/2508 uses A20(M) number extensively
- Use of number M20
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- Route, Kidbrooke - Falconwood
- HLG 159/1257 has plans matching as-built A2 through Eltham
- Route, Falconwood - Dartford
- Route, Dartford - Gravesend
- A282 interchange intended as A2/R3 junction
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- Eltham section built in 1980s
- Woolwich Borough Council objection to Eltham section
- Use of number A2(M)
- Roads in England 1973-74
- Use of number M2
- Use of number A102(M) for Dover Radial Route
- Roads in England 1971-72
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