In June an infrastructure bill changed the status of the Highways Agency, which runs motorways and trunk roads, to make it a government-owned body.
All vehicles go straight and do not consider the effect of traffic lights during its running in motorway.
Staking its claim as the only family-run motorway service station on the UK road network, it makes for a pretty special toilet break.
There is a bomb alert, not only on the rail link but also on the M1 motorway running parallel to it.
The M10 - a short motorway running from junction 7 of the M1 to south of St Albans - remained closed and was being used as a muster point for emergency services.
Admittedly, there's a national motorway running past Mandela's peach-coloured, gated mansion, but drivers still often have to brake hard to avoid casual stray cattle (known locally as "Transkei traffic lights").
The swarm of autorickshaws fades and, after pausing at a toll booth, you find yourself on an eight-lane motorway running parallel with the coast, floating high over the sea on 120 piers, and suspended on wires from two 128-metre towers.
But they are worried that the proposed motorway, running between the Bab al-Salaam and the Bab Touma, two of the city's old gates, may threaten the city's hoped-for cultural renaissance.Officials argue that the road should make it easier to get into the old city and lessen traffic inside its walls.
When I arrived, there was a lovely mini-hamper on the table, and a copy of A Wild Herb Soup, the memoir of local environmental activist Émilie Carles, who fought to stop a motorway running through the beautiful Vallée de la Clarée.
All vehicles go straight and do not consider the effect of traffic lights during its running in the motorway.
