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Our much-loved Opening Booklets section has two new publications for you to explore, and we’re making some overdue changes to make them easier to find and easier to read.

The Silvertown Tunnel is finally open for business. One question remains: what’s it for?

For the first time, we can share pictures of the pioneering experiment that lit up the Worcestershire countryside with enormous signs 61 years ago.

In July 2024, a new Government entered office with a very different set of priorities. What does it mean for a faltering roads programme?

It's 100 years since the opening of the world's first motorway, the Autostrada from Milan to the Lakes.

In 2022, Manchester City Council say they reduced the speed limit on the Mancunian Way to 30mph. But it’s not clear if they did. It’s not even clear if they can.

Road numbering is a system with clear rules. What happens when the people responsible for numbering roads don't follow them?

National Highways are spending a third of a billion pounds rebuilding one of the most congested junctions on the M25. Is it money well spent?

Oxford's Zero Emission Zone is just a trial, but transport policy in Oxford has become the catalyst for pitched battles and drawn in protestors from across the UK. What's happening to this genteel university town?

It’s been a quiet year for Roads.org.uk, but we will be back to our usual schedule soon.

We’ve spent years documenting the unbuilt urban motorway network planned for London. Today we’re unveiling more new routes that have never been seen before!

A national system of road numbers radiating from a central point suggests there is… well, a central point. But if you go looking for it you’ll find it doesn’t exist.

There have been rumours for months. Now the announcement has been made - “all new Smart Motorways scrapped”. What does this mean and who are the winners?

Time to put road numbers in the spotlight: the UK's A and B-road system has just reached its centenary.

One of the UK’s strangest little motorways has just been downgraded into oblivion.

Last week we went looking for some of the places pictured in the 1938 road-themed card game Belisha. This week you can play it for yourself.

In 1938, a card game called Belisha was published to promote road safety, featuring the sights of a journey across the UK. Where are they now?

Happy New Year! We're back, after a brief hiatus, with news of recent developments and exciting things to come.

Markerposts are meant to start at one end of a road and count the kilometres to the other. But things are never that simple.

The A625 used to cross the Peak District - then nature got involved. Now the slopes of Mam Tor are accessible only on foot.