Just watched this:
The Secret Life of the Motorway 1/3. Falling in Love.
New series. Showing as part of the Motorways season, this programmes looks at the building of the first Motorway in Britain, the M6 Preston By Pass, and the complex Spaghetti Junction using archive and public information films as well as interviews with the engineers who designed them, those who built them and the people who drove on them. [S] On BBC Four.
Dumbfounded to think we have screwed the landscape so much in such a short space of time (well relatively speaking). Amused to see police man with ray guns to switch on fog lights. And how the nation learnt about road safety and the design prowess which lives on today in the form of our road signs.. Interesting indeed. A total contrast to the Britain I know - even the interviewed families all seemed fairly decent. Or maybe that's what happens when you are filmed in black and white. Hard to believe that the M62 is the English version of Hooverdam...
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