Features

Detailed information, historical investigations, photo galleries and the famous Bad Junctions pages all live in the "Features" section. Click a heading to see more.

Articles

Explore the road network in serious detail — from investigations into the past and detailed tours of specific roads to biographies of the people who had a major impact on the way we travel.

Ringways

Explore the biggest thing never to happen to London: a network of motorways running around and through the city, planned in the 1960s, which came very close to being built and would have turned the city into a very different place.

Photo Gallery

Visit somewhere you've never been or take a virtual tour along an unfamiliar road with this extensive archive of photos.

Bad Junctions

A catalogue of the worst interchanges on the major road network of Great Britain. Each Bad Junction has its own page, explaining where it is, what it does, and exactly why it's wrong. You can even respond - if you think a junction hasn't had a fair hearing, you can post your views for others to see.

M65 Construction Photos

Explore the making of a motorway, from green field to blacktop, in a unique and historic series of more than 500 aerial photographs taken during the construction of the M65 between Preston and Blackburn.

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The forever bottleneck, part 2

The second part of the story, where we learn why exactly the M4 gets narrower on the final approach to Europe’s biggest city.

The forever bottleneck, part 1

The M4 into London was one of the UK's earliest and most ambitious motorway projects. It was bold, pioneering... and almost instantly regretted.

Hello, here's my ridiculous side project

An introduction to what I write, and why I write it, and where my strange new road sign simulator fits in to all this.

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Daniel "Swampy" Hooper

Britain's most famous anti-road protester, who shot to fame in the mid-1990s and came to represent the whole environmental movement.

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