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.
On Saturday 31 May something historic happened. The Heads of the Valleys Road was finally complete.
Our much-loved Opening Booklets section has two new publications for you to explore, and we’re making some overdue changes to make them easier to find and easier to read.
The Silvertown Tunnel is finally open for business. One question remains: what’s it for?
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?
