Cuerden embankment, view west, 12 December 1997
Cuerden embankment, view west (see all photos of the same view)
The huge embankment at Cuerden carries the M65 high above the natural ground level of the valley. On the left side of the motorway, a high fence has been erected to shield the parkland from the sight of traffic.
Structure 4/4a/4c (M6 interchange bridges)
M6 motorway
What's new
The monster seen from below
What might it have been like to stand in one spot and witness the arrival, and the uncertainty, of plans for an urban motorway in West London?
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.
Have you seen...
North Cross Route
The route and the history of the North Cross Route, proposed in the 1960s as the northern side of London's innermost motorway ring road.
