M18 J5
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North Ings Interchange
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M18, B1538
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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?
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 second part of the story, where we learn why exactly the M4 gets narrower on the final approach to Europe’s biggest city.
The route and the history of the North Cross Route, proposed in the 1960s as the northern side of London's innermost motorway ring road.
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