Rings Around London: Orbital Motorways and the Battle for Homes Before Roads

The London Ringways were a set of urban motorways planned for London in the 1960s and 1970s. They would have been the largest civil engineering project since the war and cost between 60,000 and 100,000 people their homes. They would have devastated the environment and turned London into a car dominated city. This is the first full-length history of the Ringways; what they were, where they would have gone and how Londoners fought them off. Wayne Asher is a former journalist turned IT manager. His first book, 'A Very Political Railway', examined the near death and rebirth of the North London Line.