How to build a motorway 27 April 2019
We've just published nearly 500 aerial photographs of the M65 under construction. Prepare to be fascinated!
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Operation Brock: update 17 April 2019
Two weeks after it arrived it went away... but not completely.
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The ULEZ has landed 08 April 2019
The Ultra Low Emission Zone is now in force across Central London. What does it mean for you? And what's next?
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Operation Brock 27 March 2019
A £30m plan to keep traffic moving while using 13 miles of motorway as a lorry park has just been implemented - and it might be here for a while.
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The unexpected survivor 19 March 2019
It was designed to warn drivers of bad weather. And it was bad weather that finally exposed it again, after decades under wraps.
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The 3D zebra 04 March 2019
Some 3D paint tricks mean one London zebra crossing is no longer taking its job lying down.
What's wrong with the Aberdeen bypass? 01 February 2019
The A90 Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route is the biggest road construction project the UK has seen for years - but there's something very wrong with the bridge over the River Don.
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The Minister's cake 24 January 2019
In 1968, the Minister of Transport travelled up to Yorkshire to open a long length of the brand new M1. There was just one problem. Where was the cake?
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The Boring Talks 21 January 2019
Roads.org.uk finds itself on BBC Radio 4, with news of some roads that don't exist.
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The return of Ringway 2 20 December 2018
The next set of pages exploring London's unbuilt motorways are back online, this time looking at the reviled Ringway 2.
60 years of motorways 05 December 2018
Today marks the sixtieth birthday of the motorway network, and of one entirely forgotten bridge in Lancashire.
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Hyde and seek 03 December 2018
In the sixties, a motorway was built on Hyde Park. Which one?
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What makes a dual carriageway? 07 November 2018
Two lanes each way don't make a dual carriageway. What does? Let's go to Wales and find out.
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When is a motorway not a motorway? 15 October 2018
When it's an expressway, of course. Except that an expressway is, now, also a motorway.
Colouring by Numbers 24 September 2018
A data visualisation of British road numbering produces surprisingly beautiful results.
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Out of London: A40 07 September 2018
The A40 travels more than 260 miles west from St Paul's Cathedral in London. This is what a journey along its whole route, from start to finish, looks like.
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The importance of being loopy 23 August 2018
Redditch is home to something extraordinary. Something big, and absurd, and noticed by almost nobody. Redditch has a cloverleaf interchange.
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A new name for a very old website 11 August 2018
CBRD is 17 years old this month... and it's not called CBRD any more.
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The trouble with the Thames 26 July 2018
The capital's planned new river crossing faces opposition at every turn. Why has it always been so hard to find new ways across the Thames in East London?
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It's coming home by motorway 11 July 2018
It's coming home, so your journey home might be quicker... and Highways England have named two "World Cup motorways".
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Farewell GLC lights
Why am I all nostalgic about some street lights being replaced?
Silver bullet
The Silvertown Tunnel is finally open for business. One question remains: what’s it for?
Skid Risk, Accident, Fog
For the first time, we can share pictures of the pioneering experiment that lit up the Worcestershire countryside with enormous signs 61 years ago.
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Clear and legible
A century ago, one short memorandum issued by the Ministry of Transport laid the groundwork for a system of standardised, uniform road signs and a great deal more.
