View west from contract interface to Riley Green, 4 October 1994
View west from contract interface to Riley Green (see all photos of the same view)
The pile of rubble at the bottom of this picture was the end of contract 1. Work on contract 2 did not start until a year later, so until then the worksite ended in the middle of a field.
Date
4 October 1994
(see all photos from this date)
Direction of view
West
What's new
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.
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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Emergency Diversion Routes
Those funny black and yellow symbols are everywhere - and they might just get you back on track one day.
