The secret plan to turn Camden's canal into a motorway
Luke O’Sullivan
Jun 27, 2025 14:30
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The story of the secret 1960s plan to drain and pave over Regent’s Canal for a six-lane motorway—and how one local resident, Crystal Hale, rallied her community to stop it.
If you want to learn more about the whole project, watch the Jay Foreman video. Turns out it was from before he did Map Men (men). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUEHWhO_HdY&t=1s
You can also read the full Greater London Development Plan here: https://archive.org/details/greaterlondondev0000grea/
Old photo of traffic in London, Woolwich by Ben Brooksbank https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/44502
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