Cuerden embankment, view north, 4 October 1994
Cuerden embankment, view north (see all photos of the same view)
The site of the future embankment, with Lostock culvert under construction ahead of the earthworks being started.
Date
4 October 1994
(see all photos from this date)
Direction of view
North
What's new
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.
The forever bottleneck, part 1
The M4 into London was one of the UK's earliest and most ambitious motorway projects. It was bold, pioneering... and almost instantly regretted.
