Interesting Facts

29th October 1986 - Margaret Thatcher officially opened the M25 motorway.

There are 800 miles of roadworks in place on motorways and major A roads in the UK. (Just in time for the bank holiday traffic, where 14.5 million drivers will set off for the spring break. Gridlock is expected on the M25, M4, M5, M53 and M62.  Happy days.) Source

At 117 miles, the M25 or Lon­don Orbital Motor­way is the sec­ond longest city bypass in Europe. The longest is the Berliner Ring, which is 122 miles (196 km) long. (A Royal Com­mis­sion first sug­gested a ring road for Lon­don in 1905, but it didn't happen until the M25 opened on 29th October 1986. It took more than 11 years to actually build, and construction cost £1bn. It used more than two million tonnes of concrete and 3.5 million tonnes of asphalt.