A6 overbridge, view east, 3 April 1995
A6 overbridge, view east (see all photos of the same view)
Date
3 April 1995
(see all photos from this date)
Direction of view
East
Structures visible
Structure 7 (A6 overbridge)
Roads visible
A6 Preston Road
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.
