M6/A6 interchange culvert works, view west, 2 June 1997
M6/A6 interchange culvert works, view west (see all photos of the same view)
Earthworks on the vast embankments surrounding the M6 are now complete, though not yet landscaped and seeded. One of the two sliproads has been laid out and surfaced.
Date
2 June 1997
(see all photos from this date)
Direction of view
West
Roads visible
A6 Preston Road
M6 motorway
What's new
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.
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?
Have you seen...
M25 Orbital Motorway
The M25 is either one of the greatest transport achievements of the 20th century or one of Britain's largest planning failures, depending on which way you look at it. This booklet takes the former view, celebrating the completion of the circuit in 1986.
