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.
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.
The UK has been driving in circles for a hundred years now, and this humble road junction has become part of British culture. Just what is so special about roundabouts?
