In and out of a sixties New Town
Basingstoke is one of the UK's sixties New Towns - whole new urban areas planned and built back when we thought the car was king. That means it has a network of urban roads that are unlike anything in most UK towns, including one right through, and under, the town centre.
Back on 4 January 2008 we took a spin around the town to see its expressway ring road, Ringway, and to pass through the middle on Churchill Way. This looping journey starts and ends at Black Dam Roundabout in the south east of town. In the years since then the town hasn't changed hugely but its roads do look different - how many differences can you spot?
Map extract from OS Opendata 1:250,000 Scale Colour Raster under the Open Government Licence 3.0.
What's new
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.
Red, white and blue
Kent County Council is run by eurosceptic nationalists. So why are they putting EU flags on their road signs?
The sunlit uplands
On Saturday 31 May something historic happened. The Heads of the Valleys Road was finally complete.
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Mistakes
Making road signs is a tricky business, but fortunately the professionals who design them get it right. Usually.
