M61 interchange and Brindle Road overbridge, view south, 14 February 1997
M61 interchange and Brindle Road overbridge, view south (see all photos of the same view)
The M61 interchange looks to be most of the way to completion from this angle, though actually the roundabout has yet to be graded and have its road bed formed in places. On the M61, new sign gantries have been installed.
Date
14 February 1997
(see all photos from this date)
Direction of view
South
Structures visible
Structure 10a (Brindle Road overbridge, M61)
Structure 14/14a (M61 interchange bridges)
Roads visible
M61 motorway
What's new
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?
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.
