View west from Tramway Lane underbridge, 10 January 1996
View west from Tramway Lane underbridge (see all photos of the same view)
Between the A6, in the distance, and Tramway Lane, at the bottom of the picture, work has finally started to clear topsoil on the route of the motorway. Until now, this section had seen few developments since the former A6 to M61 link road had closed.
Structure 7 (A6 overbridge)
Structure 8 (Tramway Lane underbridge)
What's new
The road that made no sense
It was the UK's only single-carriageway motorway, and twenty years ago it ceased to exist. This is the story of the strange fascination it held, and of my place in history.
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.
