The return of Ringway 2 20 December 2018
The next set of pages exploring London's unbuilt motorways are back online, this time looking at the reviled Ringway 2.
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60 years of motorways 05 December 2018
Today marks the sixtieth birthday of the motorway network, and of one entirely forgotten bridge in Lancashire.
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Hyde and seek 03 December 2018
In the sixties, a motorway was built on Hyde Park. Which one?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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The design disaster at Deptford 09 May 2018
The A36-A303 interchange at Deptford is added to Bad Junctions.
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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.
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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.
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?
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Daniel "Swampy" Hooper
Britain's most famous anti-road protester, who shot to fame in the mid-1990s and came to represent the whole environmental movement.
