Chronology Maps
Click a section name to see full details and a map.
| Completed | Route | Name | Start | End | Original number |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M6 | Preston Bypass | J29 Bamber Bridge | J32 Broughton | ||
| M55 | Preston Bypass | M6 J32 Broughton | J1 Broughton | M6 |
What's new
Skid Risk, Accident, Fog
For the first time, we can share pictures of the pioneering experiment that lit up the Worcestershire countryside with enormous signs 61 years ago.
All change
In July 2024, a new Government entered office with a very different set of priorities. What does it mean for a faltering roads programme?
A century of motorways
It's 100 years since the opening of the world's first motorway, the Autostrada from Milan to the Lakes.
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Mixed Signals
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?
