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Western Avenue Extension

The Western Avenue Extension - opened as A40(M) and known as the Westway - was much hated when it opened, but there's no sign of that in the official book published to mark its opening.

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M25 Orbital Motorway

The M25 is either one of the greatest transport achievements of the 20th century or one of Britain's largest planning failures, depending on which way you look at it. This booklet takes the former view, celebrating the completion of the circuit in 1986.

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Rainbow Signals

The annual London Pride event was accompanied, in 2016, by some quite unusual changes to traffic lights around Trafalgar Square. The green men went missing — and seven new symbols took their place.

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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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Forth Bridges

There's plenty of pictures of the three magnificent bridges over the Firth of Forth at Queensferry. But not many are taken from beneath.