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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See Category:Ringway 1.
- 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
- T 319/2655 includes plans of this
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- Use of M16 designation before opening
- T 319/2655 has plans of "M16 motorway" between A10 and M11, which match precisely what is now M25
- 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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See Category:Radials North.
See Category:Radials West.
See Category:Radials South.
