Red, white and blue 12 October 2025
Kent County Council is run by eurosceptic nationalists. So why are they putting EU flags on their road signs?
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International
A century of motorways 26 September 2024
It's 100 years since the opening of the world's first motorway, the Autostrada from Milan to the Lakes.
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On Ukraine 28 February 2022
Until recently Ukraine's extremely well designed new road signs were the only reason we had to think about the country. Plus, some ways to help in the current situation.
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What's new
Hello, here's my ridiculous side project
An introduction to what I write, and why I write it, and where my strange new road sign simulator fits in to all this.
London, in a new light
It was specially designed never to be noticed. And now it's disappearing, nobody has noticed its absence. It's London's own bespoke street light.
The Ringways Map is here
The wait is over! The full map of the Ringways, London’s unbuilt urban motorway network, is now online. Not even the system's planners had anything like this.
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Harry Yeadon
A civil engineer, working principally in the North West of England, responsible for many of the area's motorways.
