Phantom Jams, the ghostly monster of the motorway

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Dear British drivers

Remember when joining a motorway you do not have right of way.

Remember a single car not towing can actually drive at 70mph.

Remember keep left unless overtaking.

Thanks

#british #drivers #motorway

Beneath the Westway #brutalism #architecture #poetry #moss #road #motorway
Next gigs include Chesham, Newcastle, Stockport, Stroud www.robinince.com

Multiple bottles of #prosecco yeeted into live lanes of #M4 #motorway and a container knocked from a #lorry following a #collision - one lorry #driver #arrested on suspicion of using a #mobilePhone at the wheel. There were only minor injuries, but the clean up will take a good few hours!

#RoadSafety #Berkshire #England

https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2026-04-27/m4-closed-after-lorry-crash-leaves-prosecco-scattered-across-carriageway

Song Of A Road - A Radio Ballad About The Building Of The M1 Motorway by Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger, Charles Parker, released on Topic Records in 1999 but broadcast on the BBC Home Service in 1959.

A radio ballad is a sound-tapestry woven of four basic elements: songs, instrumental music, sound effects and the recorded voices of those with whose lives each program deals.

After the relatively contained Ballad of John Axon, the scope of the second radio ballad widened considerably. The construction of Britain's first motor-highway, the M1 or, as it was then known, the London-Yorkshire motorway, then stood at 57 miles of muddy road and a workforce of 19,000 men. From the simple telling of a story, the team now had a much more ambitious subject with its shadowy chronology, complex background and multitudinous tradesmen, labourers, management and administrators.

https://ewanmaccoll.bandcamp.com/album/the-radio-ballads-song-of-a-road

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOjWsoy6IME

#EwanMcColl #PeggySeeger #RadioBallad #Motorway #BBC #Music #SpokenWord