M5 (NI)

M5 (Northern Ireland)

Rathcoole to Whitewell

The motorway that was supposed to go to Carrickfergus, but never did: Northern Ireland's M5 is now just a spur from the M2.

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Where did the M25 come from?

London’s notorious orbital motorway turns 40 years old today. Where did it come from - and why the number “25”?

The long way round

When a road is closed, why isn't the diversion route just the quickest way past the closure?

Signs and sensibility

The one great attempt to make London’s streets logical - and how one retired chauffeur’s favourite routes changed the way you get around the capital.

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Glasgow

Even in the 1960s heyday of roadbuilding, some people said you could never build your way out of congestion. Glasgow had plans to prove them wrong.