Michael Dnes

Michael Dnes is a civil servant at the UK Department for Transport. He is also the author of The Rise and Fall of London’s Ringways, 1943–1973.

London’s lost ringways

Words by Michael Dnes

A monstrous plan to build major motorways through some of London’s greatest neighborhoods fell apart. But the price was the birth of the NIMBY movement, and a permanent ceiling on Britain’s infrastructure ambitions.

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