Riley Green interchange, view north east, 29 April 1996
Riley Green interchange, view north east (see all photos of the same view)
The focus of work at Riley Green is the missing bridge on the right, but progress has also been made on landscaping the old course of the A674, in the foreground, and laying out parts of the new roundabout.
Structure 20/20a (Riley Green interchange bridges)
A674 Chorley Road
A675 Bolton Road
What's new
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?
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.
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From War to Worboys
The tale of how British traffic signing developed between the Second World War and the mid-1960s, bringing us from a system designed at the turn of the century to the signs we still use today.
