Features
"Features" contains well, features about the motorway network in general.
Might Have Been Map
The Might Have Been Map demonstrates how the motorway network might have looked if more of the plans since the dawn of the Motorway Age had come to fruition.
It's based solely on documentary evidence - there's no speculation here!
How the Motorways were Numbered
Why isn't the M5 called the M38? What are numbers like A20(M) all about?
Find out the answers to these questions and many more as we dig through the archives to bring you how the decisions, the arguments and some ideas that never saw the light of day - in the words of the men who decided How the Motorways were Numbered.
Northern and Western Motorway
Back in 1923, motorways were almost unheard of. See just how different things were back in the 1920s whilst we look at a motorway that might just have changed everything...
Ringways For Beginners
Find out why the M25 is rubbish, and just what was the point of those little bits of motorway in London.
Meet the largest, and potentially most costly, set of urban motorway proposals in the United Kingdom.
Secret History of Motorways
Travel through time, following the twists and turns and see how the motorway network we know and love/hate was built, from 1896 to 2008.
Written to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Preston Bypass, Britain's first motorway - which opened on 5 December 1958.
Tyne Side Story
How one small area of the country got the motorway bug in a big way, before it all went wrong...