A500

A500

Barthomley to Hanchurch

A spine road for the Potteries, making sense of the jumbled towns and villages that cluster around Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme and keeping the M6 free of local traffic.

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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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Mistakes

Making road signs is a tricky business, but fortunately the professionals who design them get it right. Usually.