View east from Riley Green interchange to Stanworth rock cutting, 2 June 1997

View east from Riley Green interchange to Stanworth rock cutting (see all photos of the same view)

East from Riley Green the motorway is now looking almost complete, though it stops abruptly at the contract interface, beyond which progress is not so well advanced.

Date
Direction of view
East
Structures visible

Structure 20/20a (Riley Green interchange bridges)

Roads visible

A674 Chorley Road

A675 Bolton Road

What's new

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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