Bye bye Brock 3 February 2020
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.
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.
Pictures taken as the first section of the M1 was being built in 1958-9, with all its unique architecture still under construction.
Two weeks after it arrived it went away... but not completely.
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.
Today marks the sixtieth birthday of the motorway network, and of one entirely forgotten bridge in Lancashire.
If there's trouble crossing the Channel, you'll see the lorries queuing on the M20. What is Operation Stack? Why does it cause so much trouble? And why, more than twenty years after it started, are we still using it?
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During the 1960s the UK developed some of the most sophisticated - and strange - electronic variable message signs anywhere in the world. How? And, just as importantly... why?
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Those funny black and yellow symbols are everywhere - and they might just get you back on track one day.
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If you're on the motorway (in England at least) you might have noticed some funny blue signs down the side of the road. What are they for?
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The M621 has one junction where everything leaves the motorway and heads for the city, and a very bizarre junction it is too.
A civil engineer, working principally in the North West of England, responsible for many of the area's motorways.
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