Thatcher's transport legacy

James Evison

09 April 2013

When Margaret Thatcher became prime minister in 1979, the road network was incomplete, the M25 was incomplete, and the infamous Roads for Prosperity white paper – responsible for the Swampy-era protests of the 1990s - was a decade away.

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