Take the High Road
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 Posted in Observations | 5 Comments »I've been neglecting you of late - I know, and I'm sorry. The main website has been pretty dead and the blog has been quiet too. I moved house at the end of August, and as anyone will tell you, it ...
Fun with signs
Monday, June 9th, 2008 Posted in Observations, Signage | 6 Comments »Back in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Road Research Laboratory did a lot of work on road sign design - and specifically, on how to design signs that could be read easily and quickly when travelling at speed. ...
Quiet motorways
Thursday, May 29th, 2008 Posted in History, Observations | 4 Comments »At work this morning, a colleague of mine mentioned the M45, and it sent me into a bit of a reverie. Now I find myself itching to post something about what might well be the best kept secrets in British ...
HOV comes to Yorkshire
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 Posted in Observations, Road news | 5 Comments »Not a new story - it was in the news a month ago now - but worth covering anyway. The UK's first motorway car share lane was opened today by Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly, giving drivers a new opportunity to cut ...
Keep left
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 Posted in Observations | 5 Comments »You can't travel far in the UK without coming across one of these little chaps. A load of bollards. Picture by James Gray They're everywhere and arguably one of the most effective bits of design work on the road network. Durable, inexpensive, ...
