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A38 Midlands Section

Midlands Section

South Normanton to Shenstone

This part of the A38 forms the backbone of Derby's road network and provides a crucial link north from Birmingham to Lichfield, Burton and beyond.

Routes

What's new

Skid Risk, Accident, Fog

For the first time, we can share pictures of the pioneering experiment that lit up the Worcestershire countryside with enormous signs 61 years ago.

All change

In July 2024, a new Government entered office with a very different set of priorities. What does it mean for a faltering roads programme?

A century of motorways

It's 100 years since the opening of the world's first motorway, the Autostrada from Milan to the Lakes.

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Junction Three

The M621 has one junction where everything leaves the motorway and heads for the city, and a very bizarre junction it is too.