M20
2020 end of year update 21 December 2020
We've reached the end of the strangest year anyone can remember. Time for a quick look at some news from the last few months.
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.
Operation Brock: update 17 April 2019
Two weeks after it arrived it went away... but not completely.
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.
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.
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?
M20 Bridge Collapse 29 August 2016
A footbridge collapses onto a live motorway - how? And is it safe?
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?
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.
Have you seen...
Junction Three
The M621 has one junction where everything leaves the motorway and heads for the city, and a very bizarre junction it is too.