View east from Brimmicroft footbridge to Riley Green, 12 December 1997
View east from Brimmicroft overbridge to Riley Green (see all photos of the same view)
The bridge at Brimmicroft occupies the middle of this picture, with part of Riley Green Interchange at the top.
Structure 19a (Brimmicroft overbridge)
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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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EuroRoute
Today you can catch a train to France. You can even put your car on it, and be there in less than an hour. But in the 1980s, Euro Tunnel had competition - including plans to build a motorway across the English Channel.
