Marsh Farm and Marsh Lane overbridges, view west, 14 February 1997
Marsh Farm and Marsh Lane overbridges, view west (see all photos of the same view)
Marsh Farm bridge is just out of sight at the bottom of this picture. Clearly visible here are works to the road bed and embankment drainage, on a part of the route that until a couple of months previously had been blockaded by the old course of Marsh Lane.
Date
14 February 1997
(see all photos from this date)
Direction of view
West
Structures visible
Structure 17 (Marsh Lane overbridge)
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.
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West Cross Route
Desperately-needed but never built, this was one of the only London urban motorway plans that were ever progressed to the construction stage.
