A421

A421

to

St Neots
Milton Keynes

Since 1996, three sections of a new A421 expressway have been built, progressively completing a fast route that serves to link Cambridge to Milton Keynes and Bedford to the wider world.

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What's new

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.

All change

In July 2024, a new Government entered office with a very different set of priorities. What does it mean for a faltering roads programme?

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M1 under construction

Pictures taken as the first section of the M1 was being built in 1958-9, with all its unique architecture still under construction.