The length of Ringway 3 between the A1 at South Mimms and the A10 near Waltham Cross is of particular interest because it had been consistently viewed, since the 1950s, as the most urgently needed section of what was then the “D” Ring, and this head start resulted in the length between A1 and A111…

The “Faggs Road Spur” was a proposal from the mid-1960s to build a section of the “D” Ring Road, later Ringway 3, as part of the M3 construction project. At various points it was either to be a standalone spur, or a fully completed section of R3 awaiting the parts to the north and south,…