A6 overbridge, view west, 4 October 1994
A6 overbridge, view west (see all photos of the same view)
The A6 Preston Road roundabout, shortly to be removed and replaced with a bridge over the M65, forms the end of a link road to the M61 that will also shortly be removed.
A6 Preston Road
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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.
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Mixed Signals
During the 1960s the UK developed some of the most sophisticated - and strange - electronic variable message signs anywhere in the world. How? And, just as importantly... why?
