Rugby to Felixstowe
The route linking the West Midlands and the north of England to East Anglia and the container ports of Felixstowe and Harwich is incredibly important and incredibly busy. And yet it didn't exist in any coherent form until about 1992 when the A14 popped into existence.
Highways England's flagship new road was, to great fanfare, supposed to be a motorway - but it opened as the A14.
Nobody likes a concrete road. Promises have been made time and again to get rid of them all - but perhaps there’s another solution.
When it's an expressway, of course. Except that an expressway is, now, also a motorway.
For the first time, we can share pictures of the pioneering experiment that lit up the Worcestershire countryside with enormous signs 61 years ago.
In July 2024, a new Government entered office with a very different set of priorities. What does it mean for a faltering roads programme?
It's 100 years since the opening of the world's first motorway, the Autostrada from Milan to the Lakes.
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.
