Walton Summit Motorway, looking east, 14 February 1997
Walton Summit Motorway, looking east (see all photos of the same view)
Surface has now been laid on parts of the motorway and the junction, but in other places - like the approach to the viaduct in the middle of the picture - earthworks and final grading have yet to be finished.
Structure 14/14a (M61 interchange bridges)
M61 motorway
Walton Summit 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...
A1(M) Darlington Bypass
Opened in May 1965, the A1(M) Darlington Bypass was one of the UK's earliest motorways and made huge strides in linking the North East to the rest of England. Explore the pioneering spirit of its engineers in the book they produced to mark its opening.
