Proposals for the route first arose in the 1960s as part of the London Ringways plan, which would have seen four concentric circular motorways built in the city, together with radial routes, with the M11 motorway ending on Ringway 1, the innermost Ringway, at Hackney Marsh.
(The song "Autobahn" was joined by a short animated film of a Mercedes and Beetle racing down a motorway, which ends with the VW about to turn off onto a slip-road).
The motorway itself ends some distance from the city; the rest of the route is along the A63 dual carriageway.
Belgian police were Wednesday due to display guns, ammunition and explosives seized after a motorway chase ended in a deadly shootout with a man suspected of terrorist links.
Eventually, he did crash as he turned off the main motorway, bringing an end to his shocking and life-threatening nine-mile drive.
There was a fine, drifting Tom Tiddler's Ground, a very funny Watford Gap (the song about motorway food that ended up as a court case) and then all of the 1971 album Stormcock, with Harper playing some rousing solo guitar on One Man Rock and Roll Band, and joined by a second acoustic guitarist Matt Churchill for an inspired treatment of Me and My Woman.
Then the letting up, The lighter stroke, which brought back Cranesbill and thistle, a bicycle wheel Rusting: an iron circle hurting the grass Again and the hedges veiled in hawthorn Again just in time for the May Novenas Recited in sweet air on a road leading To another road, then another one, widening To a motorway with four lanes, ending in A new town on the edge of a city They will never see.
Therefore, the computed delivery routes start and end at motorway exits at the city border.
On a plane, you see nothing but clouds, and on a motorway you see the back end of the lorry in front.
But at the other end of that motorway, Saturday is also a big day for the game in Bristol, as the admirable Sonics club throw a bit of a party.
Occasionally — very occasionally — you'll chance upon another depressed lump of sub-humanity, wandering aimlessly and wondering what wrong junction they had taken off the M6 motorway of their life to end up somewhere so desolate.
