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The next set of pages exploring London's unbuilt motorways are back online, this time looking at the reviled Ringway 2.

Today marks the sixtieth birthday of the motorway network, and of one entirely forgotten bridge in Lancashire.

In the sixties, a motorway was built on Hyde Park. Which one?

Two lanes each way don't make a dual carriageway. What does? Let's go to Wales and find out.

When it's an expressway, of course. Except that an expressway is, now, also a motorway.

A data visualisation of British road numbering produces surprisingly beautiful results.

The A40 travels more than 260 miles west from St Paul's Cathedral in London. This is what a journey along its whole route, from start to finish, looks like.

Redditch is home to something extraordinary. Something big, and absurd, and noticed by almost nobody. Redditch has a cloverleaf interchange.

CBRD is 17 years old this month... and it's not called CBRD any more.

The capital's planned new river crossing faces opposition at every turn. Why has it always been so hard to find new ways across the Thames in East London?

It's coming home, so your journey home might be quicker... and Highways England have named two "World Cup motorways".

Booklets published to mark the opening of the Westway and the M1 at Hendon are added to the site.

The toll booths are gone but you still need to pay. If you don't... what next?

It's been on the cards since the 1920s. Is the Western Orbital Motorway now finally going to happen?

Just a few years ago Kent was going to be saved from Operation Stack. Now it's back with a vengeance.

The A36-A303 interchange at Deptford is added to Bad Junctions.

Back in 1972, one Birmingham newspaper found Spaghetti Junction so devilishly complex that it published a pull-out-and-keep guide to navigating it.

Bristol’s M32 recently gained a new junction for buses only. To mark this strange new addition to the motorway network, here are five places you can’t leave the motorway.

The new A1(M) between Leeming and Barton in North Yorkshire is now, finally, nearing completion. It's been a long wait!

An update on the future of Road Schemes and a brand new feature that makes it easier to use.