Cuerden embankment, view north, 12 December 1997
Cuerden embankment, view north (see all photos of the same view)
The two motorways crossing this view are both carried on huge embankments that have almost completely reshaped the valley. The nearest faces Cuerden Valley Park and in the years since the motorway has opened has been covered with trees.
Date
12 December 1997
(see all photos from this date)
Direction of view
North
Roads visible
M6 motorway
What's new
The long way round
When a road is closed, why isn't the diversion route just the quickest way past the closure?
Signs and sensibility
The one great attempt to make London’s streets logical - and how one retired chauffeur’s favourite routes changed the way you get around the capital.
A bridge under troubled bridges
A bridge that was ruined by another bridge, and a type of highway planning beyond any of the UK’s worst nightmares.
Have you seen...
Glasgow
Even in the 1960s heyday of roadbuilding, some people said you could never build your way out of congestion. Glasgow had plans to prove them wrong.
