Red, white and blue 12 October 2025
Kent County Council is run by eurosceptic nationalists. So why are they putting EU flags on their road signs?
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We need to talk about Wisley 01 April 2024
National Highways are spending a third of a billion pounds rebuilding one of the most congested junctions on the M25. Is it money well spent?
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Up for adoption 24 January 2022
For most people, highway maintenance is not a day to day concern. But not every road is the responsibility of the local council. What if your street is “unadopted"?
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Bye bye Brock 03 February 2020
No tears will be shed in Kent for the end of Operation Brock, the much-hated contraflow that turned the M20 into a semi-permanent lorry park.
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Operation Brock: update 17 April 2019
Two weeks after it arrived it went away... but not completely.
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Operation Brock 27 March 2019
A £30m plan to keep traffic moving while using 13 miles of motorway as a lorry park has just been implemented - and it might be here for a while.
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M2 Motorway and Medway Bridge
Two lovingly-produced booklets commemorate the opening of the M2 and the Medway Bridge, its major engineering feature.
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M1 Hendon Urban Motorway
A hugely destructive but largely forgotten urban motorway scheme, celebrated here by its architects in the book that marked its opening.
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M25 Orbital Motorway
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.
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The stack is back 21 May 2018
Just a few years ago Kent was going to be saved from Operation Stack. Now it's back with a vengeance.
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East Street blues 12 June 2017
In August 2016, East Street bridge was struck and collapsed. What's left behind when you demolish half a bridge?
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London, in a new light
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 Ringways Map is here
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.
Red, white and blue
Kent County Council is run by eurosceptic nationalists. So why are they putting EU flags on their road signs?
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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?
