No smoke without ire 27 October 2021
London's Ultra Low Emission Zone has just expanded to cover the whole inner city, and across the UK, other cities are implementing their own Clean Air Zones. Is this the future?
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Environment
The ULEZ has landed 08 April 2019
The Ultra Low Emission Zone is now in force across Central London. What does it mean for you? And what's next?
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The trouble with the Thames 26 July 2018
The capital's planned new river crossing faces opposition at every turn. Why has it always been so hard to find new ways across the Thames in East London?
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The zero-emission street 31 January 2018
Three London Boroughs are rushing to implement the first Ultra Low Emission Zones ahead of the Mayor's London-wide plan.
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Time for T 23 October 2017
A new Toxicity Charge applies to vehicles in Central London from today, and this is only the start.
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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.
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Daniel "Swampy" Hooper
Britain's most famous anti-road protester, who shot to fame in the mid-1990s and came to represent the whole environmental movement.
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What's new
South London's lost motorways
Completing the story of London's epic Ringways, we've just published the Southern Radials, five more motorways that never saw the light of day.
To the north east!
Two new additions to our collection of Opening Booklets take us to Darlington and Middlesbrough.
The ghost junction
The only UK motorway that didn’t connect to ordinary roads finally got its own interchange in 2019. But it's not open, because it still doesn’t touch any ordinary roads.
Have you seen...
Scammonden Bridge
If you've ever been on the M62 across the Pennines, you'll know the one. It's the huge arched bridge 120ft above the road. And this is what it's like when you're standing on top of it!