Not so Smart 17 April 2023
There have been rumours for months. Now the announcement has been made - “all new Smart Motorways scrapped”. What does this mean and who are the winners?
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Operation Brock: update 17 April 2019
Two weeks after it arrived it went away... but not completely.
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Operation Brock 27 March 2019
A £30m plan to keep traffic moving while using 13 miles of motorway as a lorry park has just been implemented - and it might be here for a while.
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To the Limit
Speed limits are more emotive and divisive than almost anything else about the road network. How do you sort the fact from the opinion? And how did we end up with the speed limits we have?
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Operation Stack
If there's trouble crossing the Channel, you'll see the lorries queuing on the M20. What is Operation Stack? Why does it cause so much trouble? And why, more than twenty years after it started, are we still using it?
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What's new
The sunlit uplands
On Saturday 31 May something historic happened. The Heads of the Valleys Road was finally complete.
Grand openings
Our much-loved Opening Booklets section has two new publications for you to explore, and we’re making some overdue changes to make them easier to find and easier to read.
Silver bullet
The Silvertown Tunnel is finally open for business. One question remains: what’s it for?
Have you seen...
M1-A1 Link Road
Those last few miles of the M1 east of Leeds were completed in 1999. It looks for the most part like a fairly average piece of road, but one of the project's engineers describes some of the challenges that were faced.
