East Street blues 12 June 2017
In August 2016, East Street bridge was struck and collapsed. What's left behind when you demolish half a bridge?
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Welcome to the new CBRD 06 June 2017
After a few quiet months, the new-look website is finally here.
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Something new east of Glasgow 15 April 2017
The newly finished M8 and newly created A8(M) arrive in the Motorway Database.
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New article: Clear and legible 04 March 2017
A brand new article all about the very first standards for road signs, issued by the Ministry of Transport in 1920.
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Changed junctions and new Smart Motorways 29 January 2017
Updates to the Motorway Database, including the new layout of Catthorpe Interchange.
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The A30 arrives in the Motorway Database 17 December 2016
The A30's factfile and exit list have arrived on CBRD.
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Fifteen Years 03 September 2016
In August 2016, CBRD turned 15 years old. Join us for a tour of the last 15 years, looking at what's changed on the UK road network and what we've learned.
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M20 Bridge Collapse 29 August 2016
A footbridge collapses onto a live motorway - how? And is it safe?
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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.
Red, white and blue
Kent County Council is run by eurosceptic nationalists. So why are they putting EU flags on their road signs?
The sunlit uplands
On Saturday 31 May something historic happened. The Heads of the Valleys Road was finally complete.
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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.
