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It's rather fitting that the 50th anniversary of motorways in the UK can be celebrated with the opening of the Carlisle-Gretna "Cumberland Gap" M6 section which completes the motorway link from London to Glasgow

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"Show me someone who says that they have never exceeded a speed limit, and I'll show you a liar, or a menace." (Austin Williams - Director, Transport Research Group)

Any views expressed in this post are personal opinions and may not represent the views of Safe Speed

Also in the Daily Express

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Useless laws weaken necessary laws.

I'm surprised they are even allowed to talk about that subject in a positive light, nowadays.

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Currently undergoing training with the I.A.M.

I spoke to parents .. they recall fondly the first motorway and how their Jag purred along without a murmer

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If you want to get to heaven - you have to raise a little hell!

Smilies are contagious
They are just like the flu
We use our smilies on YOU today
Now Good Causes are smiling too!

KEEP SMILING
It makes folk wonder just what you REALLY got up to last night!

Smily to penny.. penny to pound
safespeed prospers-smiles all round! !
But the real message? SMILE.. GO ON ! DO IT! and the world will smile with you!
Enjoy life! You only have the one bite at it.

I don't remember the very first motorways but I do remember, as thirteen year old, my first motorway trip. It was on the Doncaster Bypass (A1M) just after it opened in 1961 and it was a great adventure. My father stopped our Ford Popular (the old upright 103E - reg no 2224U) at Blythe services and checked tyre pressures, oil and water before braving the motorway. We did that 15 miles in a little over a quarter hour but dad was trembling with the strain!

Happy days

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When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. H.G. Wells
When I see a youth in a motor car I do d.c.brown

i remember going up the M6 to go to Blackpool at 90MPH in my dad's Wolsley, those were the days, no speed limits and very light traffic.

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My views do not represent Safespeed but those of a driver who has driven for 39 yrs, in all conditions, at all times of the day & night on every type of road and covered well over a million miles, so knows a bit about what makes for safety on the road,what is really dangerous and needs to be observed when driving and quite frankly, the speedo is way down on my list of things to observe to negotiate Britain's roads safely, but I don't expect some fool who sits behind a desk all day to appreciate that.