View west from Leeds-Liverpool Canal underbridge to Sandy Lane, 12 January 1995

View west from Leeds-Liverpool Canal underbridge to Sandy Lane (see all photos of the same view)

Between the canal and Marsh Lane, in the distance, earthmoving has taken place, forming the beginnings of an embankment approaching the canal bridge.

Date
Direction of view
West
Structures visible

Structure 19 (Leeds-Liverpool Canal underbridge)

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.

Share this page

Have you seen...

Exhibition Road

The UK's biggest "shared space" is a phenomenally expensive experiment in West London. How does it work?