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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?
A2 and A2(M)
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.
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.
What's new
Where did the M25 come from?
London’s notorious orbital motorway turns 40 years old today. Where did it come from - and why the number “25”?
The long way round
When a road is closed, why isn't the diversion route just the quickest way past the closure?
Signs and sensibility
The one great attempt to make London’s streets logical - and how one retired chauffeur’s favourite routes changed the way you get around the capital.
Have you seen...
M1 under construction
Pictures taken as the first section of the M1 was being built in 1958-9, with all its unique architecture still under construction.
