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Blue-bordered “local” direction signs are rapidly disappearing from our roads. They had their problems - but also an awful lot of fans.

The next pages in our series on London's unbuilt motorways are now online, charting the strange story of Ringway 3.

There's no such place as Beesworth. So why does this sign say there is?

The bold and unique Cardiff to Merthyr expressway arrives in our database of major roads.

We've just published nearly 500 aerial photographs of the M65 under construction. Prepare to be fascinated!

Two weeks after it arrived it went away... but not completely.

The Ultra Low Emission Zone is now in force across Central London. What does it mean for you? And what's next?

A £30m plan to keep traffic moving while using 13 miles of motorway as a lorry park has just been implemented - and it might be here for a while.

It was designed to warn drivers of bad weather. And it was bad weather that finally exposed it again, after decades under wraps.

Some 3D paint tricks mean one London zebra crossing is no longer taking its job lying down.

The A90 Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route is the biggest road construction project the UK has seen for years - but there's something very wrong with the bridge over the River Don.

In 1968, the Minister of Transport travelled up to Yorkshire to open a long length of the brand new M1. There was just one problem. Where was the cake?

Roads.org.uk finds itself on BBC Radio 4, with news of some roads that don't exist.

The next set of pages exploring London's unbuilt motorways are back online, this time looking at the reviled Ringway 2.

Today marks the sixtieth birthday of the motorway network, and of one entirely forgotten bridge in Lancashire.

In the sixties, a motorway was built on Hyde Park. Which one?

Two lanes each way don't make a dual carriageway. What does? Let's go to Wales and find out.

When it's an expressway, of course. Except that an expressway is, now, also a motorway.

A data visualisation of British road numbering produces surprisingly beautiful results.

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.