View west from Tramway Lane underbridge, 12 January 1995
View west from Tramway Lane underbridge (see all photos of the same view)
The full length of the M61 link road that has been closed and ripped up is visible here, with churned up earth on both sides marking out the width of the future motorway cutting.
Date
12 January 1995
(see all photos from this date)
Direction of view
West
What's new
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.
The forever bottleneck, part 1
The M4 into London was one of the UK's earliest and most ambitious motorway projects. It was bold, pioneering... and almost instantly regretted.
Have you seen...
All of the A6118
A peculiar road near Peterborough with an interesting history. And it's only a mile long.
