rayleighcutting.jpg
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Descriptive text
A black and white photograph showing a wide, brand new road, with no road markings, curving away through a deep man-made cutting.
Caption
Rayleigh Cutting on the brand-new London-Southend Road, seen as the road neared completion in 1925.
Original size
1600×1085
What's new
The forever bottleneck, part 2
The second part of the story, where we learn why exactly the M4 gets narrower on the final approach to Europe’s biggest city.
The forever bottleneck, part 1
The M4 into London was one of the UK's earliest and most ambitious motorway projects. It was bold, pioneering... and almost instantly regretted.
Hello, here's my ridiculous side project
An introduction to what I write, and why I write it, and where my strange new road sign simulator fits in to all this.
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