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.
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Interchanges
The importance of being loopy 23 August 2018
Redditch is home to something extraordinary. Something big, and absurd, and noticed by almost nobody. Redditch has a cloverleaf interchange.
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Spaghetti Junction recipe 20 April 2018
Back in 1972, one Birmingham newspaper found Spaghetti Junction so devilishly complex that it published a pull-out-and-keep guide to navigating it.
Three-Level Stacked Roundabout
A cheap and cheerful way to fully grade separate two intersecting roads.
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Cloverleaf
Four symmetrical loops — it's impossible to miss a cloverleaf. If you can find one, that is.
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Fork
It might be the simplest type of interchange there is. One way on and one way off: a fork in the road.
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The Magic Roundabout
Officially the seventh most frightening thing on the road network - but actually it might just be the most efficient junction ever designed.
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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?
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From War to Worboys
The tale of how British traffic signing developed between the Second World War and the mid-1960s, bringing us from a system designed at the turn of the century to the signs we still use today.
