M61 interchange, view east, 12 January 1995
M61 interchange, view east (see all photos of the same view)
Date
12 January 1995
(see all photos from this date)
Direction of view
East
Structures visible
Structure 14/14a (M61 interchange bridges)
Roads visible
M61 motorway
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.
