Tramway Lane underbridge, view north, 12 January 1995
Tramway Lane underbridge, view north (see all photos of the same view)
The western half of the M61 link road, on the left of the picture, has been ripped up, and traffic to and from the M61 is now using a temporary link to Tramway Lane until the Walton Summit Motorway (middle right) is ready to open.
Date
12 January 1995
(see all photos from this date)
Direction of view
North
Roads visible
Walton Summit Motorway
What's new
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.
