The Motorway Map of Britain

The story of how this country was built from the ground up - by filling in a map of Britain's transport networks through the ages, and focusing on the UK's love-hate relationship with motorways. Since their fitful start in the 1950s, through the glamour of the swinging 60s, and the backlash against urban planning gone mad, we chart the progress of these epic engineering projects as they came to dominate our landscape