Ticket to ride

In the UK a coach firm is now offering tours of the M25 motorway, the orbital route around capital London. The city, noted for its heavy traffic and high congestion, sees regular hold-ups. Exactly what tourists would wish to see along this uninteresting part of the UK is unclear. It has not been revealed how many tourists have signed up to view this extremely busy but otherwise unremarkable part of the UK.

June 20, 2012 Read time: 1 min

Tunnel plan for British capital?

A proposal for an orbital tunnel in UK capital London has been put forward and is now being evaluated. The plan calls for a 35km underground ring road in central London that would carry traffic around the city, in a bid to help reduce the capital’s current chronic congestion. Called the Inner Orbital Route, the tunnel project has an estimated cost of €36.8 billion (£30 billion) and would also include two new crossings of the River Thames. Transport for London (TfL) has been tasked with the job of evaluating

September 16, 2019

UK smart motorway work for M4 link

Highways England in the UK is carrying out major upgrade work for the busy M4 motorway, running west from capital London. In all 11 bridges are being replaced along a 51km stretch of the M4 between London and Reading. When complete, the current hard shoulder will have been rebuilt and resurfaced to allow traffic to use it as a live lane. The section carrying the heaviest traffic, between the M25 ring road around London and the main exit for Heathrow Airport, will be widened so that it will feature five la