Changing the charge 21 June 2020
Wide ranging changes to London's Congestion Charge take effect this week. Are they truly temporary?
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Transport for London
The ULEZ has landed 08 April 2019
The Ultra Low Emission Zone is now in force across Central London. What does it mean for you? And what's next?
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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.
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Low Emission Zone
A first step towards emissions-based road pricing, a pointless measure to enforce something that's happening anyway, or another leap forward in traffic planning from the people who created the Congestion Charge? It's hard to say.
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London Congestion Charge
One of the world's biggest and most controversial schemes to manage traffic by charging for roadspace. You can drive in to London if you like, guv, but it'll cost you.
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Hogarth Flyover
It makes the traffic situation in one part of West London much more bearable but it should have been removed more than quarter of a century ago. It's amazing what you can do with a big Meccano kit.
What's new
London’s other forgotten motorways
We’ve spent years documenting the unbuilt urban motorway network planned for London. Today we’re unveiling more new routes that have never been seen before!
The middle of nowhere
A national system of road numbers radiating from a central point suggests there is… well, a central point. But if you go looking for it you’ll find it doesn’t exist.
Not so Smart
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?
Have you seen...
M1 under construction
Pictures taken as the first section of the M1 was being built in 1958-9, with all its unique architecture still under construction.