Gateshead Highway
The unloved and unfinished Gateshead Highway is due to be demolished. Take a look at the road that Gateshead can't wait to get rid of.
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Coventry Ring Road
The best ring road in the world? Possibly. The most frightening? Yes.
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Croydon Ring Road
Common sense suggests that you shouldn't be able to spend so much money on heavy engineering and end up with such a terrible road system.
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Mancunian Way
Manchester's highway in the sky, carrying traffic around the city centre and rapidly becoming an iconic part of the city's heritage.
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Above the M8
Go to Glasgow and it's almost inevitable that you'll use the M8. The views of the city surrounding it are really quite unique.
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M1 Architecture
The most unique motorway in Britain owes its identity to its fifties architecture. Much of it is in danger of being removed or irreperably altered. This page documents it in detail.
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A century of motorways
It's 100 years since the opening of the world's first motorway, the Autostrada from Milan to the Lakes.
Schrödinger’s speed limit
In 2022, Manchester City Council say they reduced the speed limit on the Mancunian Way to 30mph. But it’s not clear if they did. It’s not even clear if they can.
Sorry, wrong number
Road numbering is a system with clear rules. What happens when the people responsible for numbering roads don't follow them?
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Low Emission Zone
A first step towards emissions-based road pricing, a pointless measure to enforce something that's happening anyway, or another leap forward in traffic planning from the people who created the Congestion Charge? It's hard to say.
