Signage

Markerposts are meant to start at one end of a road and count the kilometres to the other. But things are never that simple.

Until recently Ukraine's extremely well designed new road signs were the only reason we had to think about the country. Plus, some ways to help in the current situation.

Road signs are colour coded for different types of road, but in Devon there are more colours than anywhere else. What do Devon's colourful signs mean?

For a while, the M5 ended at a 270-degree loop - but long after the motorway was extended, it kept on catching drivers unawares. But it left behind an unexpected legacy of safer driving.

Somerset County Council have started restoring the county’s many fingerposts to their former glory. Somerset resident JR offers a guided tour of some of the county's remarkable historic signposts.

Blue-bordered “local” direction signs are rapidly disappearing from our roads. They had their problems - but also an awful lot of fans.

There's no such place as Beesworth. So why does this sign say there is?

It was designed to warn drivers of bad weather. And it was bad weather that finally exposed it again, after decades under wraps.

Coventry is home to the UK's only fully electronic road signs. Will they catch on?

Someone's been bringing 1950s signs back from the dead. Is that wise?

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.

During the 1960s the UK developed some of the most sophisticated - and strange - electronic variable message signs anywhere in the world. How? And, just as importantly... why?

Those funny black and yellow symbols are everywhere - and they might just get you back on track one day.

If you're on the motorway (in England at least) you might have noticed some funny blue signs down the side of the road. What are they for?

From Zebra to Pelican and beyond: the comprehensive history of the development of the humble pedestrian crossing.

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.

The tale of how British traffic signing developed between the Second World War and the mid-1960s, bringing us from a system designed at the turn of the century to the signs we still use today.

A North London roundabout signposted almost exclusively in pre-Worboys signs.

Examples of the increasingly rare signs from before the big change-over in the mid 1960's.