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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?
A third Spur for London 28 June 2017
A couple of years ago we delighted in finding two spur roads called Spur Road. It turns out there's another one!
Queensway Tunnel
The engineering marvel of its day, much altered and maligned ever since: this is the original Mersey Tunnel in all its glory.
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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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Three Generations of the A82
Three roads were built in the space of 200 years, all trying to tame Rannoch Moor and Glen Coe. This is the impressive tale of one of Scotland's most memorable routes.
