M65

M65

Preston to Colne

The M65 connects the towns in Lancashire's Calder Valley, from Preston to Blackburn, Burnley and on to Colne. It might not be a critical national route but it's a lifeline to the region it serves.

Routes
M65

What's new

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.

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?

Share this page

Have you seen...

Mixed Signals

During the 1960s the UK developed some of the most sophisticated - and strange - electronic variable message signs anywhere in the world. How? And, just as importantly... why?