... & SUTHERLAND ROADS MOTORWAYS M40 ALIGNMENT WATERCOURSES LANDSCAPE DESIGN ARCHAEOLOGY BRIDGES COMPOSITE CONSTRUCTION LANDSCAPING OXFORD BIRMINGHAM WATERSTOCK WENDLEBURY WARWICK UK DISCUSSION h o c . Instn Civ. Engrs Tramp., 1995,111,May 144-148 Road Panel Papers l0015,10024...

...J. F. Smith, BSc, MICE; W. J. R. Smyth, BA, BAI, FICE, FIStructE; C. B. Wilson, BA, BAI, MICE, MIStructE The recently completed 94 km extension of the M40 motorway from Oxford to Birmingham passes through some of the finest countryside in England and great emphasis was given to aesthetic...

... Oxford to Birmingham. However, it was the early 1960s before work commenced on the first section of the M40 High Wycombe Bypass and it was 1974 before the last section of motorway between London and Oxford was opened to traffic. This Paper describes the preparatory work and highway design...

...T. H. Jacob, DipTech(Eng), MICE, MIHE; P. B. Moore, BA(Hons), DipLD, ALI With the main emphasis of the Department of Transport's road programme now turning to the widening of existing roads, the M40 extension between Oxford and Birmingham has been seen as the last link in the strategic network...