National Highways (NH), formerly the Highways Agency and later Highways England, is a government-owned company charged with operating, maintaining and improving motorways and major A roads in England. It also sets highways standards used by all four UK administrations, through the Design Manual for Roads and Bridges. Within England, it operates information services through the provision of on-road signage and its Traffic England website, provides traffic officers to deal with incidents on its network, and manages the delivery of improvement schemes to the network.
The M4 motorway is partly managed by National Highways.
A traffic officer carries out a road block on the M40 motorway in 2018
Surviving bridge over railway cutting just north of the station in 2016
Roads in the United Kingdom
The United Kingdom has a well developed and extensive network of roads totalling about 262,300 miles (422,100 km). Road distances are shown in miles or yards and UK speed limits are indicated in miles per hour (mph) or by the use of the national speed limit (NSL) symbol. Some vehicle categories have various lower maximum limits enforced by speed limiters. A unified numbering system is in place for Great Britain, whilst in Northern Ireland, there is no available explanation for the allocation of road numbers.
Motorway M1 in Yorkshire is an example of an urban motorway.
Regional destinations, on the M5 motorway with South Wales, the Midlands and London in capitals, although London is a not a regional destination, therefore should not be in capitals
A typical roundabout sign on a primary road
The toll plaza on the M6 Toll at Great Wyrley
