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Road numbering is a system with clear rules. What happens when the people responsible for numbering roads don't follow them?
We need to talk about Wisley
National Highways are spending a third of a billion pounds rebuilding one of the most congested junctions on the M25. Is it money well spent?
Oxford's Ground Zero
Oxford's Zero Emission Zone is just a trial, but transport policy in Oxford has become the catalyst for pitched battles and drawn in protestors from across the UK. What's happening to this genteel university town?
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West Cross Route
Desperately-needed but never built, this was one of the only London urban motorway plans that were ever progressed to the construction stage.
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This is good and interesting, but old news. The SCC project and the associated handbook were first published in 2017.
Much good work has however been being done locally; if you were to visit the parish of PILTON near Shepton Mallet, you would find all the fingerposts are regularly cleaned and painted when required (prior to COVID-19). Indeed Pilton Parish Council recently organised and paid for a sign that had been snapped off by a lorry, to be re-made entirely from scratch (NOT a cheap process!) and re-installed. The broken sign had been taken to the Somerset County Council highways depot for storage, and in spite of numerous requests for re-instatement over several years, it was eventually found to be 'missing'. Hence the Parish Council had to act on its own initiative...