#infrastructure pressure

A protected route cut through ordinary England, and for those left beside it, the delay was the first sign that the road had begun to belong to something else. The Morning the Road Changed Hands Ashwell Roundabout had begun taking the shape it would keep for hours by the time the police cars settled across the western approach, a slow curve of brake lights bending past the petrol station, along…

After reports of a strike in Germany reached a Midlands freight holding site, the routes changed before the workers understood why. T he Yard That Turned East The first report from Germany reached Hartlow Freight Holding Yard through a driver’s phone before any official instruction had crossed the dispatch system, carried into the evening shift by a man who had come to the hatch angry about a…