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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

Devon help us

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?

Twenty Years

It's our 20th birthday! Join us as we celebrate with the return of a much-missed feature.

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.

Have you seen...

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?

VMS

The bright lights of Coventry 1 November 2017

Matrix signs reloaded 28 July 2017

Smart Motorways 14 November 2014