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M2 and A2

Medway Towns Bypass

London to Lydden

The M2 may not be a long, important or significant motorway in its own right, but when it's taken with its partner the A2 it's a force to be reckoned with.

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M2 A2

Red, white and blue 12 October 2025

Kent County Council is run by eurosceptic nationalists. So why are they putting EU flags on their road signs?

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A2 A20

The middle of nowhere 07 July 2023

A national system of road numbers radiating from a central point suggests there is… well, a central point. But if you go looking for it you’ll find it doesn’t exist.

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A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 A6 A40 A501

London's ancient main road to Canterbury and Dover has been bypassed over and over again, and in the sixties was supposed to be replaced in part with an urban motorway. Parts were finished in the end, even if they weren't quite to the original designs.

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South London's lost motorways 04 May 2022

Completing the story of London's epic Ringways, we've just published the Southern Radials, five more motorways that never saw the light of day.

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A3 M23 A20 A2

East Cross Route

The strangest part of London's planned inner Motorway Box - not just because it's nothing like the other three sides, but also because it actually got built.

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A2 A12 A102

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A bridge under troubled bridges

A bridge that was ruined by another bridge, and a type of highway planning beyond any of the UK’s worst nightmares.

The monster seen from below

What might it have been like to stand in one spot and witness the arrival, and the uncertainty, of plans for an urban motorway in West London?

The road that made no sense

It was the UK's only single-carriageway motorway, and twenty years ago it ceased to exist. This is the story of the strange fascination it held, and of my place in history.