Inner Ring Road

I believe the car park is used solely for Covid testing.

Moat Street car park (under Junction 7) is permanently closed for parking. It is planned to remove the roundabout and link Croft Road to Butts Road. The Ring Road slips roads will be 'T' junctions. This is to encourage walking by getting rid of the subways.

That's what I was thinking of Peter I have to say the underpasses are scary.

I used those Croft Road underpasses virtually daily during the late sixties, early seventies, including the subway in front of the Technical College over to the YWCA side. I noticed that when staying at the Premier Inn a few years ago it had been filled in and replaced with a surface 'puffin crossing’. Not so the one splitting Upper & Lower Spon Street, running under the RR which was both dirty and scary!

Here's another great capture, shared with permission from Paul Reynolds on FB, taken again by his dad. I think it’s the Foleshill Road junction going in, looking across to the Hill Street gasometer. King Street/Gas Street etc completely disappeared because of this section.

I added Granville Berry's plan of the ring road to Cov Atlas. I'd be interested to know whether the transparency is correct with some of the roads demolished. I'm as accurate as I can be but there's always room for improvement.

I think it’s a little too much to the west, Ben, if you use Hertford Square as an example on the NLS mapping.

I find that the NLS is even less accurate. In large part it's due to the less than perfect original maps. Roads are portrayed bigger than life. If you can get most roads and junctions to match real life, you're doing well.

I think this is King Street going looking across the Upper Well St/Hill Cross Area - you can see the Salvation Army and Gas Showrooms on the right -