Up for adoption 24 January 2022
For most people, highway maintenance is not a day to day concern. But not every road is the responsibility of the local council. What if your street is “unadopted"?
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South East
Bye bye Brock 03 February 2020
No tears will be shed in Kent for the end of Operation Brock, the much-hated contraflow that turned the M20 into a semi-permanent lorry park.
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Operation Brock: update 17 April 2019
Two weeks after it arrived it went away... but not completely.
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Operation Brock 27 March 2019
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.
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The stack is back 21 May 2018
Just a few years ago Kent was going to be saved from Operation Stack. Now it's back with a vengeance.
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East Street blues 12 June 2017
In August 2016, East Street bridge was struck and collapsed. What's left behind when you demolish half a bridge?
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M20 Bridge Collapse 29 August 2016
A footbridge collapses onto a live motorway - how? And is it safe?
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Operation Stack
If there's trouble crossing the Channel, you'll see the lorries queuing on the M20. What is Operation Stack? Why does it cause so much trouble? And why, more than twenty years after it started, are we still using it?
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Reigate Tunnel
An unassuming Surrey market town with an amazing claim to fame — the world's first road tunnel.
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Oxfordshire Signs
This is the story of one man at Oxfordshire County Council who pre-empted the development of modern road signs - much to the annoyance of the men from the Ministry.
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Histories
Mickleham Bends
Once it was one of the UK's most dangerous roads — just what is so special about a bit of dual carriageway in Surrey?
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What's new
South London's lost motorways
Completing the story of London's epic Ringways, we've just published the Southern Radials, five more motorways that never saw the light of day.
To the north east!
Two new additions to our collection of Opening Booklets take us to Darlington and Middlesbrough.
The ghost junction
The only UK motorway that didn’t connect to ordinary roads finally got its own interchange in 2019. But it's not open, because it still doesn’t touch any ordinary roads.
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Clear and legible
A century ago, one short memorandum issued by the Ministry of Transport laid the groundwork for a system of standardised, uniform road signs and a great deal more.