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A new bridge across the Mersey opens tonight. Will it bring the banks of the river closer together or split Halton borough in two?

England's motorways are littered with the remnants of service areas that were never built. Here's ten of our favourites.

One hard shoulder's enough for one carriageway, right? Well...not according to one long-lost design standard.

An update on Highways England's new orange emergency lay-bys.

Someone's been bringing 1950s signs back from the dead. Is that wise?

The UK's newest motorway, the M90 Queensferry Crossing, opens today... and closes again on Friday.

"Driverless" lorry platoons will hit the roads by the end of next year. Should we be worried?

CBRD is in the news, and not for the right reasons.

There's a system for everything on the roads, but few are as ingenious or obscure as Road Codes to identify electronic equipment.

Why do Highways England think emergency lay-bys will work better painted orange?

With the Tonbridge-Pembury dualling scheme open, the A21 has been added to the Motorway Database.

The M40 has just turned 50. Here are five things you might not know about the London to Birmingham motorway.

Today, Chris Grayling announced £1bn a year for improvements to local roads. How does it work - and why do we need it?

A couple of years ago we delighted in finding two spur roads called Spur Road. It turns out there's another one!

Trunk roads in England are now being built and improved in five-year Road Investment Strategies. How do they work?

In August 2016, East Street bridge was struck and collapsed. What's left behind when you demolish half a bridge?

After a few quiet months, the new-look website is finally here.

The newly finished M8 and newly created A8(M) arrive in the Motorway Database.

A brand new article all about the very first standards for road signs, issued by the Ministry of Transport in 1920.

Updates to the Motorway Database, including the new layout of Catthorpe Interchange.