Bamber Bridge roundabout, view north, 16 October 1995
Bamber Bridge roundabout, view north (see all photos of the same view)
The link road to the M65, at the bottom of the picture, is substantially complete. Dualling work on the A6 at the top of the picture is yet to get fully under way.
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It was the UK's only single-carriageway motorway, and twenty years ago it ceased to exist. This is the story of the strange fascination it held, and of my place in history.
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.
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Warrington New Town
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