Numbering
100 years of road numbers 01 April 2023
Time to put road numbers in the spotlight: the UK's A and B-road system has just reached its centenary.
Surprise! A new motorway 11 May 2021
Appearing unexpectedly on signs in Lincolnshire last week, a brand new motorway has suddenly come into existence. And it's a weird one.
Routes
Colouring by Numbers 24 September 2018
A data visualisation of British road numbering produces surprisingly beautiful results.
Tags
Road Numbers
We'd be lost without them, but there is nothing straightforward about the seemingly simple business of giving roads a number.
Guides
What's new
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?
Have you seen...
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.
