Belisha: the card game 07 February 2023
Last week we went looking for some of the places pictured in the 1938 road-themed card game Belisha. This week you can play it for yourself.
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The lost world of Belisha 02 February 2023
In 1938, a card game called Belisha was published to promote road safety, featuring the sights of a journey across the UK. Where are they now?
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The road that made no sense
It was the UK's only single-carriageway motorway, and twenty years ago it ceased to exist. This is the story of the strange fascination it held, and of my place in history.
The forever bottleneck, part 2
The second part of the story, where we learn why exactly the M4 gets narrower on the final approach to Europe’s biggest city.
The forever bottleneck, part 1
The M4 into London was one of the UK's earliest and most ambitious motorway projects. It was bold, pioneering... and almost instantly regretted.
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M1-A1 Link Road
Those last few miles of the M1 east of Leeds were completed in 1999. It looks for the most part like a fairly average piece of road, but one of the project's engineers describes some of the challenges that were faced.
