West Midlands
Skid Risk, Accident, Fog 10 March 2025
For the first time, we can share pictures of the pioneering experiment that lit up the Worcestershire countryside with enormous signs 61 years ago.
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M6 Hanchurch-Lymm
One of the longest lengths of motorway to open in one go, this book celebrates the opening of the M6 from the Potteries to the North West.
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Sorry, wrong number 03 May 2024
Road numbering is a system with clear rules. What happens when the people responsible for numbering roads don't follow them?
The importance of being loopy 23 August 2018
Redditch is home to something extraordinary. Something big, and absurd, and noticed by almost nobody. Redditch has a cloverleaf interchange.
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The zombie motorway rises again 07 June 2018
It's been on the cards since the 1920s. Is the Western Orbital Motorway now finally going to happen?
The bright lights of Coventry 01 November 2017
Coventry is home to the UK's only fully electronic road signs. Will they catch on?
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Coventry Ring Road
The best ring road in the world? Possibly. The most frightening? Yes.
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What's new
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?
The sunlit uplands
On Saturday 31 May something historic happened. The Heads of the Valleys Road was finally complete.
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Daniel "Swampy" Hooper
Britain's most famous anti-road protester, who shot to fame in the mid-1990s and came to represent the whole environmental movement.
