2023 New Year update 05 January 2023
Happy New Year! We're back, after a brief hiatus, with news of recent developments and exciting things to come.
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Roads.org.uk
Twenty Years 24 August 2021
It's our 20th birthday! Join us as we celebrate with the return of a much-missed feature.
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Knowledge is power 18 February 2021
We're expanding our information pages to provide better coverage of the basics - perfect if you're new to the world of road enthusiasts or if you're just dropping by to answer a question.
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The end of Road Schemes 28 March 2020
It's the end of the road for our coverage of current road construction projects.
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A new look 27 February 2020
After 18 years, a new look for the Motorway Database's famous exit lists.
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A new name for a very old website 11 August 2018
CBRD is 17 years old this month... and it's not called CBRD any more.
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The future of Road Schemes 23 January 2018
Should we continue tracking current road construction projects?
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Welcome to the new CBRD 06 June 2017
After a few quiet months, the new-look website is finally here.
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Fifteen Years 03 September 2016
In August 2016, CBRD turned 15 years old. Join us for a tour of the last 15 years, looking at what's changed on the UK road network and what we've learned.
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What's new
The forever bottleneck, part 2
The second part of the story, where we learn why exactly the M4 gets narrower on the final approach to Europe’s biggest city.
The forever bottleneck, part 1
The M4 into London was one of the UK's earliest and most ambitious motorway projects. It was bold, pioneering... and almost instantly regretted.
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.
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Rainbow Signals
The annual London Pride event was accompanied, in 2016, by some quite unusual changes to traffic lights around Trafalgar Square. The green men went missing — and seven new symbols took their place.
