View west from Marsh Lane to Sandy Lane, 16 October 1995

View west from Marsh Lane to Sandy Lane (see all photos of the same view)

Between Sandy Lane and Marsh Lane, the motorway runs almost at ground level, and without earthworks to build, work has started early on constructing the road bed. In the distance, a first course of tarmac has been laid for a short length.

Date
Direction of view
West
Structures visible

Structure 16 (Sandy Lane overbridge)

Structure 17 (Marsh Lane overbridge)

Structure 17a (Marsh Farm overbridge)

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The Ringways Map is here

The wait is over! The full map of the Ringways, London’s unbuilt urban motorway network, is now online. Not even the system's planners had anything like this.

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The sunlit uplands

On Saturday 31 May something historic happened. The Heads of the Valleys Road was finally complete.

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