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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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.
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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.
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The Ross Motorway 27 January 2018
The commemorative book published to mark the opening of the M50 is now available on CBRD.
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The future of Road Schemes 23 January 2018
Should we continue tracking current road construction projects?
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Back to the Forth 14 January 2018
Some new photos of the Queensferry Crossing arrive in our Forth Bridges gallery.
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London's surviving gas lights 08 January 2018
A new photo gallery tracks down some of London's oldest and loveliest street lights.
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Hello, here's my ridiculous side project
An introduction to what I write, and why I write it, and where my strange new road sign simulator fits in to all this.
London, in a new light
It was specially designed never to be noticed. And now it's disappearing, nobody has noticed its absence. It's London's own bespoke street light.
The Ringways Map is here
The wait is over! The full map of the Ringways, London’s unbuilt urban motorway network, is now online. Not even the system's planners had anything like this.
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Emergency Diversion Routes
Those funny black and yellow symbols are everywhere - and they might just get you back on track one day.
