Leeds-Liverpool Canal underbridge, view east, 29 April 1996
Leeds-Liverpool Canal underbridge, view east (see all photos of the same view)
Unlike some sections further west, there is no road surface on the motorway here yet, but a significant length of the road bed has been prepared and the cutting at Brimmicroft is essentially complete.
Structure 19 (Leeds-Liverpool Canal underbridge)
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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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M1-A1 Link Road
Those last few miles of the M1 east of Leeds were completed in 1999. It looks for the most part like a fairly average piece of road, but one of the project's engineers describes some of the challenges that were faced.
