View west from Marsh Lane to Sandy Lane, 16 October 1995
View west from Marsh Lane to Sandy Lane (see all photos of the same view)
Between Sandy Lane and Marsh Lane, the motorway runs almost at ground level, and without earthworks to build, work has started early on constructing the road bed. In the distance, a first course of tarmac has been laid for a short length.
Structure 16 (Sandy Lane overbridge)
Structure 17 (Marsh Lane overbridge)
Structure 17a (Marsh Farm overbridge)
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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.
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Major incidents
What happens when there's a big accident on a trunk route? Who picks up the pieces, and why does it take so long?
