Cuerden embankment, view west, 29 April 1996

Cuerden embankment, view west (see all photos of the same view)

The huge embankment at Cuerden can be seen at the bottom of the picture. The bulk of the earthwork is now in place, but its facing slopes and surface are not yet formed.

Date
Direction of view
West
Structures visible

Structure 4/4a/4c (M6 interchange bridges)

Roads visible

M6 motorway

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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.

Red, white and blue

Kent County Council is run by eurosceptic nationalists. So why are they putting EU flags on their road signs?

The sunlit uplands

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

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