Roads before and after construction
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Re: Roads before and after construction
This picture shows the pylons at Howe Green before construction of the A130.
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Re: Roads before and after construction
The view near Howe Green after the the A130 has been completed, an extra pylon has been added to gain height.
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Re: Roads before and after construction
The A143 near Brockdish (before and after construction), Norfolk
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Re: Roads before and after construction
This picture shows Stuston Common (future A143), Stuston, Suffolk.
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Another view of the A413 near Wendover (before and after construction).
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A few more pictures of the A13 near Aveley (before and after construction).
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Re: Roads before and after construction
I have to say that this reminds me of Monty Python's "How not to be seen" sketch.roadphotos wrote: ↑Wed Feb 02, 2022 11:32 This picture shows Stuston Common (future A143), Stuston, Suffolk.
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Re: Roads before and after construction
The A1198 Papworth Everard By-Pass (before and after construction), Cambridgeshire.
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The A131 Great Leighs By-Pass (during and after construction), Essex. The first picture shows the start of construction, the second picture shows the same view after the A131 has been completed. What was a field is now the A131 and a housing development. The trees in the background link the two pictures.
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Re: Roads before and after construction
A few more pictures of the A505 Weston Hills Tunnel (during and after construction) at Baldock, Hertfordshire.
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The A505 (during and after construction) at Baldock, Hertfordshire.
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The A505 Weston Hills Tunnel at Baldock. The first two pictures show the construction of the cut and cover tunnel for the A505 Baldock By-Pass. The third picture shows the same view after completion.
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Those last few photos shows what should have been done to the M3 at Twyford Down. The A505 would have looked a right miss with a massive open cutting like that.
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A few more pictures of the B1013 Rochford to A127 Link Road (before and after construction), Essex.
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How did you know the exact spot for the 'before' picture? Did you just take loads in the area, on the basis that at least one would be correct? Good selection though, especially the Baldock tunnel,
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Re: Roads before and after construction
Once I know that a road is going to start construction I see if I can get a detailed map of the plans to take with me so that I can see exactly where the new road is going to go, also some of my detailed maps were available at the public meetings where people are shown the plans. Most of my before pictures are ok but there have been a few that have been looking at the wrong part of a field, a good example is the Wendover By-Pass, I hadn't realised how close to the railway the road was going to go so after taking some photos of a field that I thought the road would be going through I returned a few years later to find that some of the before pictures were not worth keeping as that part of the field hadn't changed. Luckily I had many more before pictures that were spot on, glad you like the pictures.
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I'm going to do a trip to Cambridgeshire in April to do the after pictures of the A14 near Huntingdon but I'd also like to do some before pictures of the proposed A421 near St Neots. I've marked the route on my OS map of the area, the only thing I'm not sure about is when this scheme is starting construction. The last I heard was that it was due to go ahead in 2022 (this year). Does anyone have any more detail on when in 2022 (or later) this scheme is due to start ?.