Rugby to Felixstowe
The route linking the West Midlands and the north of England to East Anglia and the container ports of Felixstowe and Harwich is incredibly important and incredibly busy. And yet it didn't exist in any coherent form until about 1992 when the A14 popped into existence.
Highways England's flagship new road was, to great fanfare, supposed to be a motorway - but it opened as the A14.
Nobody likes a concrete road. Promises have been made time and again to get rid of them all - but perhaps there’s another solution.
When it's an expressway, of course. Except that an expressway is, now, also a motorway.
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?
A gallery of images sent in by visitors to the site of original photos of motorways — including some impressive views of the M4 and M11 under construction.
