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We need to talk about Wisley
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 Ground Zero
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?
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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.
I would argue there are now many parts of the GB motorway network which have partial central hard shoulders - but they have never been designated as such. Upgrades to Smart Motorway usually replace the central metal barrier and turf with a concrete barrier and tarmac - tarmac which in many places is about a car's width and (for all-lane running) the only hard shoulder the motorway has at that stage...
Unlike those in NI they don't have emergency phones though.