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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See Category:Ringway 3.
See Category:Ringway 4.
See Category:Radials North.
See Category:Radials West.
See Category:Radials South.