M25
We need to talk about Wisley 01 April 2024
National Highways are spending a third of a billion pounds rebuilding one of the most congested junctions on the M25. Is it money well spent?
The strange story of Ringway 4 09 November 2019
The fourth and final of London's unbuilt ring roads is now back online in our Ringways pages.
The life and death of Ringway 3 25 July 2019
The next pages in our series on London's unbuilt motorways are now online, charting the strange story of Ringway 3.
M25 Orbital Motorway
The M25 is either one of the greatest transport achievements of the 20th century or one of Britain's largest planning failures, depending on which way you look at it. This booklet takes the former view, celebrating the completion of the circuit in 1986.
The rise and fall of the second hard shoulder 20 September 2017
One hard shoulder's enough for one carriageway, right? Well...not according to one long-lost design standard.
Orange appeal 11 September 2017
An update on Highways England's new orange emergency lay-bys.
Smart Motorways
Motorways used to be really simple. Now they have electronic signals, variable speed limits, emergency lay-bys, part-time hard shoulders... Just what is so smart about Smart Motorways?
What's new
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.
The forever bottleneck, part 2
The second part of the story, where we learn why exactly the M4 gets narrower on the final approach to Europe’s biggest city.
The forever bottleneck, part 1
The M4 into London was one of the UK's earliest and most ambitious motorway projects. It was bold, pioneering... and almost instantly regretted.
Have you seen...
Almondsbury Interchange
The UK's first four-level interchange opened in 1966. Relive some of the wonder and excitement of this icon of the motorway era with the book published to mark its completion.
