Cuerden embankment, view north, 14 February 1997
Cuerden embankment, view north (see all photos of the same view)
With Cuerden embankment now finished and landscaped, its enormous scale can be seen. On top, the road bed appears to have been prepared and graded, but no surface courses have been laid yet.
Date
14 February 1997
(see all photos from this date)
Direction of view
North
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...
M6 Hanchurch-Lymm
One of the longest lengths of motorway to open in one go, this book celebrates the opening of the M6 from the Potteries to the North West.
