The missing (M) 14 January 2020
Highways England's flagship new road was, to great fanfare, supposed to be a motorway - but it opened as the A14.
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When is a motorway not a motorway? 15 October 2018
When it's an expressway, of course. Except that an expressway is, now, also a motorway.
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