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Descriptive text
Black and white photograph of a roundabout forming part of a motorway interchange, with streetlights and trees in the foreground. A long arched motorway bridge stretches across the background from left to right
Caption
Samlesbury Interchange, seen in the Preston Bypass opening booklet, complete with streetlights that were removed before the road opened.
Original size
1643×559
What's new
The sunlit uplands
On Saturday 31 May something historic happened. The Heads of the Valleys Road was finally complete.
Grand openings
Our much-loved Opening Booklets section has two new publications for you to explore, and we’re making some overdue changes to make them easier to find and easier to read.
Silver bullet
The Silvertown Tunnel is finally open for business. One question remains: what’s it for?
Have you seen...
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?
