Bamber Bridge roundabout, view south, 12 December 1997
Bamber Bridge roundabout, view south (see all photos of the same view)
With the new motorway ready to open to traffic, the link road from Bamber Bridge roundabout is complete but presently closed off with concrete blocks.
A582 Lostock Lane
A6 Preston Road
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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.
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Daniel "Swampy" Hooper
Britain's most famous anti-road protester, who shot to fame in the mid-1990s and came to represent the whole environmental movement.
