Tramway Lane underbridge, view north, 2 June 1997
Tramway Lane underbridge, view north (see all photos of the same view)
At Tramway Lane the bridge is now mostly complete, though it's not clear whether it has parapets and guard rails yet. Above, the road bed is being formed but no surface has been laid.
Structure 8 (Tramway Lane underbridge)
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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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West Cross Route
Desperately-needed but never built, this was one of the only London urban motorway plans that were ever progressed to the construction stage.
