"motorway" is a perfectly correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to a major highway. For example, "We drove up the motorway on our way to the mountains."
Travelling westbound along the M4, it's best to bypass Swansea and leave the motorway at junction 47.
And while I have no desire to negotiate the motorway system ever again, I am very grateful to all the people who gave me lifts over the years, for the transport, but even more for the memories.
Sayeeda Warsi was offered the job of "senior minister of state" at the Foreign Office, with the right to attend cabinet, over the phone on a motorway hard shoulder.
A month later it busily put out a command paper, Action for Roads, which was supposed to detail how that would be spent, promising 52 new schemes, including 221 miles of new motorway lane.
I turned 18 a few months before Britain's first shopping mall opened, on a motorway interchange on the way to Hendon.
It's only a generation ago that motorway service stations were places of pilgrimage and that a coach firm ran trips to Spaghetti Junction for 65p return.
She describes the inescapable dominance they exert over the landscape: "You come off the motorway and as you drive along the main road, it's in front of you on the horizon, and then because of the lie of the land, it's suddenly on your left.
There's a real commercial advantage in that approach, we are totally different from the other motorway service areas".
The Department of Transport decided this was going to be the site for a motorway service station, and the Dunnings bid to set up the project.
Two days later we headed back to Marrakech on the shiny new motorway.
The trip was made easier by the motorway linking Marrakech to Agadir that opened in 2011, which knocked several hours off the journey time back from Taroudant.
