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The bright lights of Coventry 1 November 2017

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

Routes

Matrix signs reloaded 28 July 2017

There's a system for everything on the roads, but few are as ingenious or obscure as Road Codes to identify electronic equipment.

Smart Motorways 14 November 2014

Motorways used to be really simple. Now they have electronic signals, variable speed limits, emergency lay-bys, part-time hard shoulders... Just what is so smart about Smart Motorways?

Routes

M25

M62

What's new

A walk on the M621

Fancy a stroll? In 1972, the City of Leeds was about to open its new South East Urban Motorway and proudly showed off the achievement with a "walkabout" event.

Surprise! A new motorway

Appearing unexpectedly on signs in Lincolnshire last week, a brand new motorway has suddenly come into existence. And it's a weird one.

Imperfectly Odd: the Strensham Loop

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.

Have you seen...

A470 End to End

The road that connects Wales together, but which nobody really uses... All five hours of the A470, from Llandudno to Cardiff, are here.

VMS

The bright lights of Coventry 1 November 2017

Matrix signs reloaded 28 July 2017

Smart Motorways 14 November 2014