View west from Marsh Lane to Sandy Lane, 2 June 1997
View west from Marsh Lane to Sandy Lane (see all photos of the same view)
Marsh Lane is at the bottom of this picture. In the distance, at Sandy Lane, work is happening at a rapid pace to close the gap in the otherwise mostly complete motorway formation.
Structure 16 (Sandy Lane overbridge)
Structure 17 (Marsh Lane overbridge)
B5256 Sandy Lane
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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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Liverpool Inner Motorway
There's almost no evidence of Liverpool's 1960's plans for an inner ring road on the ground - but the motorway that never materialised would have been astonishing. The full details on the route, and the missing part the M62, are here.
