M20

M20

Mid Kent Motorway

London to Folkestone

The main road from London to the Channel Ports, and one of the principal radial routes from the capital, the M20 is not just the road to Kent but also the road to Europe.

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Operation Stack

If there's trouble crossing the Channel, you'll see the lorries queuing on the M20. What is Operation Stack? Why does it cause so much trouble? And why, more than twenty years after it started, are we still using it?

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What's new

Silver bullet

The Silvertown Tunnel is finally open for business. One question remains: what’s it for?

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?

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Mistakes

Making road signs is a tricky business, but fortunately the professionals who design them get it right. Usually.