We found many homeless communities sheltering in blankets and boxes in Southall under a network of motorway and canal bridges.
Under Margaret Thatcher, the government had decided to build a network of new motorways and trunk roads in order to realise her dream of universal driving.
How about commissioning the G1, G2 and G3, a network of green motorways – corridors of forest, wild land and public green space snaking through the country for the free circulation of people and other animals?
For the future we are looking at extending hard-shoulder running further, towards a network of "managed motorways", offering more capacity, smoother flows in place of stop-start conditions in the most congested areas, and more predictable journeys at a fraction of the cost of motorway widening.
In the northern suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis there is one such camp hidden between a network of busy motorways, home to 300 travellers.
A plan for a comprehensive network of motorways throughout the city (the Ringways Plan) was prepared in the 1960s but was mostly cancelled in the early 1970s.
A dense network of motorways now supplements the county's rail system.
José Luis Escrivá, BBVA's chief economist, thinks that such restrictions on retailing are one reason for Spain's higher inflation; he notes that Catalonia tends to have higher inflation and slower growth than Madrid.Spain has built an impressive network of motorways and high-speed trains, known as AVEs.
