M61 interchange and Brindle Road overbridge, view south, 21 October 1996
M61 interchange and Brindle Road overbridge, view south (see all photos of the same view)
The new Brindle Road bridge, now complete, is in the foreground. Beyond, the M61 interchange is taking shape.
Structure 10a (Brindle Road overbridge, M61)
Structure 14/14a (M61 interchange bridges)
M61 motorway
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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.
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