Hyde and seek 03 December 2018
In the sixties, a motorway was built on Hyde Park. Which one?
Routes
Tags
Blog
Subscribe to the RSS feed and never miss an update or a new post! What is RSS?
What makes a dual carriageway? 07 November 2018
Two lanes each way don't make a dual carriageway. What does? Let's go to Wales and find out.
Tags
When is a motorway not a motorway? 15 October 2018
When it's an expressway, of course. Except that an expressway is, now, also a motorway.
Colouring by Numbers 24 September 2018
A data visualisation of British road numbering produces surprisingly beautiful results.
Tags
Out of London: A40 07 September 2018
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.
Routes
Tags
The importance of being loopy 23 August 2018
Redditch is home to something extraordinary. Something big, and absurd, and noticed by almost nobody. Redditch has a cloverleaf interchange.
Tags
A new name for a very old website 11 August 2018
CBRD is 17 years old this month... and it's not called CBRD any more.
Tags
The trouble with the Thames 26 July 2018
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?
Routes
Tags
It's coming home by motorway 11 July 2018
It's coming home, so your journey home might be quicker... and Highways England have named two "World Cup motorways".
A dose of 1960s optimism 29 June 2018
Booklets published to mark the opening of the Westway and the M1 at Hendon are added to the site.
Tags
The zombie motorway rises again 07 June 2018
It's been on the cards since the 1920s. Is the Western Orbital Motorway now finally going to happen?
The stack is back 21 May 2018
Just a few years ago Kent was going to be saved from Operation Stack. Now it's back with a vengeance.
Routes
The design disaster at Deptford 09 May 2018
The A36-A303 interchange at Deptford is added to Bad Junctions.
Tags
Spaghetti Junction recipe 20 April 2018
Back in 1972, one Birmingham newspaper found Spaghetti Junction so devilishly complex that it published a pull-out-and-keep guide to navigating it.
The UK's latest motorway 19 March 2018
The new A1(M) between Leeming and Barton in North Yorkshire is now, finally, nearing completion. It's been a long wait!
Putting new roads on the map 05 March 2018
An update on the future of Road Schemes and a brand new feature that makes it easier to use.
Tags
The story of London's motorways 20 February 2018
The history of London's abandoned motorway plans, from the earliest ideas of the 20th Century to the political fights and protests of the 1970s, is back on CBRD.
Tags
The zero-emission street 31 January 2018
Three London Boroughs are rushing to implement the first Ultra Low Emission Zones ahead of the Mayor's London-wide plan.
Routes
Tags
What's new
The monster seen from below
What might it have been like to stand in one spot and witness the arrival, and the uncertainty, of plans for an urban motorway in West London?
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.
Have you seen...
From War to Worboys
The tale of how British traffic signing developed between the Second World War and the mid-1960s, bringing us from a system designed at the turn of the century to the signs we still use today.
