Walton Summit Motorway, looking east, 17 July 1996
Walton Summit Motorway, looking east (see all photos of the same view)
Progress on the bridge deck at Tramway Lane can be seen here. On the right, foundations have been built for a small retaining wall around the base of the electricity pylon, to prevent the embankment encroaching on it. Moving pylons and high tension cables is expensive, so in marginal cases like this it's usually easier to just build around them.
Structure 8 (Tramway Lane underbridge)
Walton Summit Motorway
What's new
The monster seen from below
What might it have been like to stand in one spot and witness the arrival, and the uncertainty, of plans for an urban motorway in West London?
The road that made no sense
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.
Have you seen...
Gateshead Highway
The unloved and unfinished Gateshead Highway is due to be demolished. Take a look at the road that Gateshead can't wait to get rid of.
