On Roads: a hidden history by Joe Moran
Monday, January 31st, 2011When the motorways arrived, many thought, wrongly, that there verges were common land and since they were only enclosed by waist-high post and rail fences, pedestrians could easily use them for hitchhiking, traffic gazing and flower picking. Gradually, though, the verges become an impenetrable no-mans land and motorways turned into barriers in the landscape as impassable as railway lines.


















