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Studland Motor Road 2 October 2010

The first motorway opened in 1958. The first road restricted to motor traffic, on the other hand, opened in 1923...

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The missing (M)

Highways England's flagship new road was, to great fanfare, supposed to be a motorway - but it opened as the A14.

The strange story of Ringway 4

The fourth and final of London's unbuilt ring roads is now back online in our Ringways pages.

A diamond on the rough

Nobody likes a concrete road. Promises have been made time and again to get rid of them all - but perhaps there’s another solution.

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B7076 and B7078

What sound at first like a pair of forgotten country lanes turn out to have had a major part to play in the history of Scotland's roads.