hink East Kilbride and maybe Paisley are still chugging, and massive loss makers like the Maryhill line will never be electrified.
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The website Chris's British Road Directory has a fascinating series of posts on the London Ringways, "a proposal to drive a dense network of motorways through and around the capital. It was a plan created by successive governments in London from the 1940s through to the 1970s that would have affected life in the capital in every conceivable way, changing the way London looked and functioned," here.
Road geeks may like to know that the aforementioned Chris also runs a separate site dedicated to motorways, for some reason called Pathetic Motorways, here.
And on a rather different subject, here's a beautiful map showing the locations of the lighthouses of New Zealand, 1900.
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Originally posted by Furtho View PostRoad geeks may like to know that the aforementioned Chris also runs a separate site dedicated to motorways, for some reason called Pathetic Motorways
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Originally posted by Me Old Flower View PostThat site is brilliant. I found out that the M62 was originally going to be called the M19 and may well have obliterated parts of the suburb of Huddersfield where I grew up, had the route not been altered.
Indeed.
And the M62 was going to end near Manchester Airport, having curved around Manchester, and the Western extension to Liverpool be called something else.
Darlington gets its own special mention for the A66(M), although it's entirely in Yorkshire.
And when I used to drive, my favourite motorway, the M67 - which ends just in time to run into a humungous traffic jam around Mottram / Rossendale coming over from the Lancs / Derbyshire side.
Is that the site with the fictitious A2(M) on it, along the route of the A2 before it meets the M2?
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Originally posted by Guy Profumo View PostIs that the site with the fictitious A2(M) on it, along the route of the A2 before it meets the M2?
Regarding the original M19/M62 plans: the route would have passed between Dewsbury and the villages of Grange Moor and Flockton, where locals are currently calling for a bypass to be built to prevent lorry drivers from taking a shortcut though narrow winding lanes to join the M1 at Barnsley.
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This has been doing the round over the last few days -- a map demonstrating the point that "if tea spread to your country by sea, you call it 'tea'. If by land, you call it 'chai'. (this is because the ports of Fujian and Taiwan use the coastal pronunciation 'te', whereas Mandarin uses chá.)"
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Originally posted by Furtho View PostThis has been doing the round over the last few days -- a map demonstrating the point that "if tea spread to your country by sea, you call it 'tea'. If by land, you call it 'chai'. (this is because the ports of Fujian and Taiwan use the coastal pronunciation 'te', whereas Mandarin uses chá.)"
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Originally posted by Wouter D View PostI think it might be the center of Amsterdam, surrounded by the rest of Amsterdam (not in dark red). If you zoom out to a level where you have an overview of the whole country, there is not one clearly discernable "dark red bit in the middle".
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Originally posted by Guy Profumo View Post
And when I used to drive, my favourite motorway, the M67 - which ends just in time to run into a humungous traffic jam around Mottram / Rossendale coming over from the Lancs / Derbyshire side.
And it's Longdendale but I'm sure you knew that.
Anyway, as you were.
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You've probably all already seen this, as it's linked from the BBC. Here is a live update map of the location of the gritters on Scotland's trunk roads. And some of their more entertaining names.
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