National Highways

Formerly the Highways Agency (1994-2015) and Highways England (2015-2021).

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The long way round

When a road is closed, why isn't the diversion route just the quickest way past the closure?

Signs and sensibility

The one great attempt to make London’s streets logical - and how one retired chauffeur’s favourite routes changed the way you get around the capital.

A bridge under troubled bridges

A bridge that was ruined by another bridge, and a type of highway planning beyond any of the UK’s worst nightmares.

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Abbreviations

How do you describe a road? One way is to use these engineering abbreviations, much loved by the UK's community of road enthusiasts.