Unbuilt
M1 Stirling Corner Link
Have you ever noticed that the M1 has no junction 3?
M12
With tendancies to thrash about all over Essex, it's possibly the most confusing motorway to research in Britain.
M13
Hang on a minute, a motorway that passes just south of Southend?
M17
Right on the edge of Leicestershire.
M19
How the M1 and A1 should have been linked.
M31
Cutting off the western M25 in a big way
M56-M62 Link
Across the Manchester Ship Canal, yet another way.
M58
On, off, on again, off again. Across mid-Lancashire from Wigan to Bolton
M59
Liverpool - Preston, the unbuilt way.
M60
The original M60 Altrincham - Sale - Stretford Bypass.
M62 Relief Road
Relieving the north and west of Manchester and Salford.
M64
How traffic between Lancashire and London should have avoided the West Midlands conurbation...
M67
Two of England's largest cities are connected by a narrow single carriageway road...
M272
Down in deepest darkest Hampshire, a strange road awaits...
M601
A strangely shaped bridge is the only modern clue...
M650
Through the valleys of Yorkshire, a blue line once appeared.
A2(M)
One of London's unbuilt routes that's ended up half-there...
A6(M)
The Stockport North - South Bypass. Or at least one of them...
A6(M)
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Rather amazingly, there was an entirely different Stockport North - South Bypass to the other one!
A48(M) Llantrisant Radial
Cardiff's other A48(M) - but this time it heads west!
A59(M)
The Bypass that's been thought about for over fifty years.
A61(M)
How Sheffield could have been just like Manchester and Leeds!
A556(M)
If you head into Manchester from the south, you travel along a single-carriageway road. It wasn't meant to be this way...
A695(M)
One of Tyneside's missing motorways that was nearly there!
'A' Ring
London's unbuilt motorway Inner Ring Road. Hyde Park to Tower Bridge and back again in one easy loop...
Belmont Link
Tiny, mysterious and elusive. Can we come up with more adjectives?
Bilston Link
Wolverhampton's unbuilt motorway that had hundreds of false starts!
Central Motorway East Bypass
Tyneside's proposed motorway bypass of a motorway...
Central Motorway West
Tyneside's "matching pair" motorway, the Central Motorway West
Chippenham Spur
A mysterious motorway in deepest, darkest Wiltshire...
Claremont Road Motorway
Tyneside's very, very nearly motorway.
Coventry North-South M'way
Coventry's attempts to join the Urban Motorway Club nearly came off...
Flockton Link
Hudderfield to Barnsley, cutting a massive corner off...
Friars Goose Crossing
Crossing the River Tyne, the proper approach to Newcastle upon Tyne city centre from the south.
Furness Link
By single carriageway to Lancashire-over-the-sands...
Glasgow Inner Ring Road
The half-built roller-coaster motorway.
Manchester Inner Ring Road
Lots of gaps, not a lot of road.
Manchester Outer Ring Road
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Genesis of a white elephant.
Morecambe Link
Planned in the 1940s, and still not here today.
Newcastle E-W Motorway
The completely underground motorway.
Newport Southern Bypass
Britain's second toll motorway?
Princess Parkway Motorway
Just why is the western side of Manchester's A5103 so empty?
South Bristol Spur
An oddly built bypass, a pointless junction and a big central reservation all add up...
Strensham - Solihull Motorway
Taking the short-cut between the M50 and M42.
Western Orbital
When is an orbital not an orbital? When it goes around Wolverhampton! That's a rubbish punchline...
Weston-super-Mare Spur
A strange sliproad layout is the biggest modern-day clue.