18 December 2025
It was specially designed never to be noticed. And now it's disappearing, nobody has noticed its absence. It's London's own bespoke street light.
The Silvertown Tunnel is finally open for business. One question remains: what’s it for?
Road numbering is a system with clear rules. What happens when the people responsible for numbering roads don't follow them?
Last year we reported on an experimental "3D" zebra crossing. It turns out they're multiplying... if you know where to look!
The next set of pages in our Ringways series are now online, documenting motorways in and out of London to the north and east.
The next pages in our series on London's unbuilt motorways are now online, charting the strange story of Ringway 3.
The Ultra Low Emission Zone is now in force across Central London. What does it mean for you? And what's next?
Some 3D paint tricks mean one London zebra crossing is no longer taking its job lying down.
The next set of pages exploring London's unbuilt motorways are back online, this time looking at the reviled Ringway 2.
The capital's planned new river crossing faces opposition at every turn. Why has it always been so hard to find new ways across the Thames in East London?
A hugely destructive but largely forgotten urban motorway scheme, celebrated here by its architects in the book that marked its opening.
The Western Avenue Extension - opened as A40(M) and known as the Westway - was much hated when it opened, but there's no sign of that in the official book published to mark its opening.
The M25 is either one of the greatest transport achievements of the 20th century or one of Britain's largest planning failures, depending on which way you look at it. This booklet takes the former view, celebrating the completion of the circuit in 1986.
Three London Boroughs are rushing to implement the first Ultra Low Emission Zones ahead of the Mayor's London-wide plan.
Some of Central London's quieter streets are still, surprisingly, lit by old and rather beautiful gas lanterns. Here are a few, by day and by night.
A new Toxicity Charge applies to vehicles in Central London from today, and this is only the start.
The annual London Pride event was accompanied, in 2016, by some quite unusual changes to traffic lights around Trafalgar Square. The green men went missing — and seven new symbols took their place.
An introduction to what I write, and why I write it, and where my strange new road sign simulator fits in to all this.
It was specially designed never to be noticed. And now it's disappearing, nobody has noticed its absence. It's London's own bespoke street light.
The wait is over! The full map of the Ringways, London’s unbuilt urban motorway network, is now online. Not even the system's planners had anything like this.
It makes the traffic situation in one part of West London much more bearable but it should have been removed more than quarter of a century ago. It's amazing what you can do with a big Meccano kit.
