M25 Motorway

The M25 motorway, or London Orbital motorway is a 117-mile (188 km) motorway that (almost) encircles Greater London, England, in the United Kingdom. The motorway was first mooted early in the 20th century as part of the plan to build four ring roads around London. A few sections, based on the now abandoned London Ringways plan, were constructed in the early 1970s and it was completed in 1986. At 188 kilometres (117 mi) (including the A282), the M25 is Europe's second longest orbital road after the Berliner Ring (196 kilometres (122 mi)).

It is one of the busiest and most congested parts of the British motorway network: 196,000 vehicles were recorded in a single day near London Heathrow Airport. Plans to widen additional sections to eight lanes (four each way) were scaled back in 2009 in response to rising costs.