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It's the end of the road for our coverage of current road construction projects.

The next set of pages in our Ringways series are now online, documenting motorways in and out of London to the north and east.

After 18 years, a new look for the Motorway Database's famous exit lists.

The A52 Clifton Bridge's major emergency repairs are bringing chaos to Nottingham. What's gone wrong - and how could it be a total surprise? Civil engineer Alex Romankiw explains.

No tears will be shed in Kent for the end of Operation Brock, the much-hated contraflow that turned the M20 into a semi-permanent lorry park.

Highways England's flagship new road was, to great fanfare, supposed to be a motorway - but it opened as the A14.

The fourth and final of London's unbuilt ring roads is now back online in our Ringways pages.

Nobody likes a concrete road. Promises have been made time and again to get rid of them all - but perhaps there’s another solution.

Nothing lasts forever. This week, after 43 years, the "temporary" Army and Navy flyover has been given its marching orders.

Blue-bordered “local” direction signs are rapidly disappearing from our roads. They had their problems - but also an awful lot of fans.

The next pages in our series on London's unbuilt motorways are now online, charting the strange story of Ringway 3.

There's no such place as Beesworth. So why does this sign say there is?

The bold and unique Cardiff to Merthyr expressway arrives in our database of major roads.

We've just published nearly 500 aerial photographs of the M65 under construction. Prepare to be fascinated!

Two weeks after it arrived it went away... but not completely.

The Ultra Low Emission Zone is now in force across Central London. What does it mean for you? And what's next?

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.

It was designed to warn drivers of bad weather. And it was bad weather that finally exposed it again, after decades under wraps.

Some 3D paint tricks mean one London zebra crossing is no longer taking its job lying down.

The A90 Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route is the biggest road construction project the UK has seen for years - but there's something very wrong with the bridge over the River Don.