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In this first Imperfectly Odd outing, we take a trip to northern Lancashire to see one of the most peculiar motorways in the UK, and one with the strangest history.

Wide ranging changes to London's Congestion Charge take effect this week. Are they truly temporary?

Three more commemorative booklets have been added to the website, published at the opening of three very different motorway projects.

Last week we set you 50 tricky road-based quiz questions. Suffer no longer - here are the answers!

Something to feed your interest in roads and help pass the time while we're all spending more time at home: we present the first ever roads.org.uk quiz!

A look inside the second Road Investment Strategy, which promises £27.4bn of investment and upgrades to trunk roads over the next five years.

It's the end of the road for our coverage of current road construction projects.

The next set of pages in our Ringways series are now online, documenting motorways in and out of London to the north and east.

After 18 years, a new look for the Motorway Database's famous exit lists.

The A52 Clifton Bridge's major emergency repairs are bringing chaos to Nottingham. What's gone wrong - and how could it be a total surprise? Civil engineer Alex Romankiw explains.

No tears will be shed in Kent for the end of Operation Brock, the much-hated contraflow that turned the M20 into a semi-permanent lorry park.

Highways England's flagship new road was, to great fanfare, supposed to be a motorway - but it opened as the A14.

The fourth and final of London's unbuilt ring roads is now back online in our Ringways pages.

Nobody likes a concrete road. Promises have been made time and again to get rid of them all - but perhaps there’s another solution.

Nothing lasts forever. This week, after 43 years, the "temporary" Army and Navy flyover has been given its marching orders.

Blue-bordered “local” direction signs are rapidly disappearing from our roads. They had their problems - but also an awful lot of fans.

The next pages in our series on London's unbuilt motorways are now online, charting the strange story of Ringway 3.

There's no such place as Beesworth. So why does this sign say there is?

The bold and unique Cardiff to Merthyr expressway arrives in our database of major roads.

We've just published nearly 500 aerial photographs of the M65 under construction. Prepare to be fascinated!