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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The Ringways are back 24 December 2017
The story of the most astonishing and destructive thing never to happen to London is back on CBRD, after a six month absence.
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The wonderful A1 21 December 2017
The A1 is the UK's longest road, but the part within London is easily overlooked. Here's five things you (maybe) didn't know about it.
The Curse of Clydach strikes again 01 December 2017
Upgrade work on the A465 through the Clydach Gorge is taking longer and costing more than expected. Should lessons have been learned from the last engineers to take it on?
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Traffic lights on motorways 22 November 2017
The headlines shout about traffic lights on motorways to ease congestion. How can that work? And is it even news?
The bright lights of Coventry 01 November 2017
Coventry is home to the UK's only fully electronic road signs. Will they catch on?
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Time for T 23 October 2017
A new Toxicity Charge applies to vehicles in Central London from today, and this is only the start.
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A view from down below 21 October 2017
A new photo gallery presents an unusual view of some very famous bridges.
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Doubling up, at a price 13 October 2017
A new bridge across the Mersey opens tonight. Will it bring the banks of the river closer together or split Halton borough in two?
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The rise and fall of the second hard shoulder 20 September 2017
One hard shoulder's enough for one carriageway, right? Well...not according to one long-lost design standard.
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Orange appeal 11 September 2017
An update on Highways England's new orange emergency lay-bys.
Accident Black Spot 01 September 2017
Someone's been bringing 1950s signs back from the dead. Is that wise?
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The third Forth bridge 30 August 2017
The UK's newest motorway, the M90 Queensferry Crossing, opens today... and closes again on Friday.
Convoy! 27 August 2017
"Driverless" lorry platoons will hit the roads by the end of next year. Should we be worried?
Matrix signs reloaded 28 July 2017
There's a system for everything on the roads, but few are as ingenious or obscure as Road Codes to identify electronic equipment.
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Orange is the new grey 19 July 2017
Why do Highways England think emergency lay-bys will work better painted orange?
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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.
The forever bottleneck, part 1
The M4 into London was one of the UK's earliest and most ambitious motorway projects. It was bold, pioneering... and almost instantly regretted.
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Liverpool Inner Motorway
There's almost no evidence of Liverpool's 1960's plans for an inner ring road on the ground - but the motorway that never materialised would have been astonishing. The full details on the route, and the missing part the M62, are here.
