A49 underbridge, view west, 10 January 1996
A49 underbridge, view west (see all photos of the same view)
The changes at the A49 since the previous set of photographs are noticeable. The A49 now runs on its new course under the bridge, while the original course of the road has been obliterated by the new embankment.
Date
10 January 1996
(see all photos from this date)
Direction of view
West
Structures visible
Structure 5 (A49 underbridge)
Roads visible
A49 Wigan Road
What's new
Signs and sensibility
The one great attempt to make London’s streets logical - and how one retired chauffeur’s favourite routes changed the way you get around the capital.
A bridge under troubled bridges
A bridge that was ruined by another bridge, and a type of highway planning beyond any of the UK’s worst nightmares.
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?
Have you seen...
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?
