Cuerden footbridge, view north, 29 April 1996
Cuerden footbridge, north (see all photos of the same view)
The footbridge has been completed for some time. Underneath it, the M6 has been restricted to two lanes in each direction as a mobile crane installs a new sign and signal gantry.
Date
29 April 1996
(see all photos from this date)
Direction of view
North
Structures visible
Structure 6a (Cuerden footbridge, M6)
Roads visible
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...
Operation Stack
If there's trouble crossing the Channel, you'll see the lorries queuing on the M20. What is Operation Stack? Why does it cause so much trouble? And why, more than twenty years after it started, are we still using it?
