View east from Hill House Farm to Sandy Lane, 4 October 1994
View east from Hill House Farm to Sandy Lane (see all photos of the same view)
Date
4 October 1994
(see all photos from this date)
Direction of view
East
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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Exhibition Road
The UK's biggest "shared space" is a phenomenally expensive experiment in West London. How does it work?
