A ride through the brand new Silvertown Tunnel
It's opening day for the Silvertown Tunnel, the highly controversial road project that provides a new way to cross the Thames in East London. The plan is to ease the chronic congestion in the Blackwall Tunnels - but campaigners hate the idea of a new road encouraging more people to drive across the river. Even usually pro-road voices have voiced complaints because it comes with a new toll that applies to the old tunnel too.
We're putting controversy aside to explore the UK's newest major road project, a £1bn twin-bore road tunnel. Come and join us to experience life beneath the waves.
Our blog post about Silvertown and other East London river crossings: The Trouble with the Thames
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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Burdock Way
The humble West Yorkshire town of Halifax may well be the creator of the most adventurous urban road scheme in the country. It's astonishing, but what was built isn't even the half of it.
